Example sentences of "not [adv] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 2 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 3 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 4 | Even employees who come into personal , face to face contact with the employer 's trade connections , can not always be said to have sufficient quality of contact . |
| 5 | That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character . |
| 6 | A less ominous formulation would be ‘ accountable to the community ’ ; yet , formulate it as we may , the notion can not confidently be said to afford a guarantee of efficiency , if the control or the accountability is to relate to its performance as business in operation . |
| 7 | One problem of assignment has already been encountered : in Chapter 9 we saw how , although and are clearly distinct in most contexts , there are other contexts where we find a sound which can not clearly be said to belong to one or other of these two phonemes . |
| 8 | Some of the others — Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie , for example — could not really be said to have voices at all . |
| 9 | But Mr Baker argued that we could not really be said to have a national system at all when there is no nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 10 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 11 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 12 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 13 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 14 | 1.1 The overall goal of this investigation is to argue that there is a very great deal that can be said , that has not yet been said , about the semantic value of fundamental syntactic relations . |
| 15 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 16 | The same can not yet be said about the idea of regression . |
| 17 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 18 | It could not therefore be said that the defendant was assuming any rights . " |
| 19 | So safety is a thing which is ca n't just be said Oh it 's it 's safer to go by train than it is to cross the road . |
| 20 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |