Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] not [be] said " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said .
2 She turned on Constanza ; Constanza lost her head , she struck back , she said the things she had not said in a life-time , the things that should not be said .
3 Like every church , like every Christian organisation , there were things being said and done in the Christian family in Rome that should not be said and done in a fellowship of Christ 's people .
4 By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists .
5 To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal .
6 Theodora was struck anew by how much a physical presence determined what could and could not be said .
7 Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period .
8 He has already demonstrated an ability to meet delivery dates , and can not be said to neglect quality .
9 3 Make sure that personnel who are to be present from sections other than the PR department are fully briefed on their role and on what can and can not be said .
10 Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive .
11 The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business .
12 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 .
13 My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano .
  Next page