Example sentences of "can not [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 2 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 3 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 4 | It makes it clear that a shopkeeper who sells cigarettes to young people can not simply say that he did not know that he was doing so . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a lot of money and we can not simply say we are not interested , ’ he added . |
| 6 | ‘ We can not yet say when he will play again , or even if an operation will be necessary . ’ |
| 7 | Although we can not yet say conclusively how objects are recognized visually we are beginning to converge on an answer . |
| 8 | Further data show that the risk of causing harm by inactivating an essential gene in the host cell , or by recombining to form a pathogen , seems low ( though we can not yet say how low ) . |
| 9 | But I can not honestly say that I find such an analysis applicable to my attitude towards the school authorities . |
| 10 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 11 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 12 | So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the |
| 13 | You can not just say ‘ Thank you and push off . ’ |
| 14 | We can not merely say the poem represents a kind of null context , where context is partly situation of utterance and partly based on previous elements in the discourse . |
| 15 | No , you can not really say that . |
| 16 | An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes . |
| 17 | We can not always say that . |
| 18 | But I can not then say that the real source of electricity is the socket upon the wall . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh I can not possibly say at this point . |
| 20 | As to why , I can not truly say . |