Example sentences of "can not be said " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
21 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
24 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
25 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
26 | That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working . |
27 | WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris . |
28 | The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 . |
29 | ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest . |
30 | Some commentators have pointed out that , as can not be said of the Cadbury Committee 's report on the financial aspects of corporate governance , much legislation would be needed to implement the Green Paper 's proposals . |