Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] can not [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political parties themselves can not be said to have existed before 1679 . |
| 2 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 3 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 4 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 5 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |