Example sentences of "can not [be] said " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , I would be very guarded about allowing the Wizard from Oz 's sound to be the sole influence in choosing an instrument , because it ca n't be said often enough that a player 's style is almost as individual as his DNA . |
2 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
3 | Although Quattro Pro 4 ca n't be said to make any task easier than in an equivalent Windows spreadsheet , what it does prove is that with very little limitation a DOS product can manage the same job as a Windows product any trouble at all . |
4 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
5 | ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’ |
6 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
7 | For want of about £2 million , the same ca n't be said of the Vulcan Bomber . |
8 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
9 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
10 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
11 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
12 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
13 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
14 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
15 | Just what the agreement struck this week between Mikhail Gorbachev , the Soviet president , Boris Yeltsin , the Russian one , and eight other republican leaders will in the end amount to can not be said . |
16 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
17 | This test is ambiguous as to whether or not D must have thought about whether the woman is consenting , but there are those who argue that one can not be said ‘ not to care less ’ about something unless one has considered it . |
18 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
21 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
22 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
23 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
24 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |
25 | 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 ’ . |
26 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |
27 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
28 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
29 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
30 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |