Example sentences of "can not [be] said [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period .
2 In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction .
3 ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals .
4 And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty .
5 So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards .
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