Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [not/n't] be say to " in BNC.

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1 For example , an Indian village producing Kashan-style rugs can not be said to be part of the Kashan weaving group ; nor can the Persian towns of Kashan and Arak be placed together , despite their relative proximity , because of the strong dissimilarities in their rugs .
2 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 .
3 That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering .
4 These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet .
5 That they are not such statements is in accord with the fact , rightly insisted upon by Hume , as already noted , that causes can not be said to be in a certain logical connection with their effects : the fact that it is not contradictory , however mistaken it may be , to assert that a causal circumstance for an event existed but that the event did not occur .
6 The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts .
7 If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome .
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