Example sentences of "can [not/n't] 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 .
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