Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff here maybe I should be I should n't be saying this the staff are finding it very difficult I mean what I 'm trying to say is for goodness sake eyes should be opened . |
| 2 | Sorry I should n't be saying because I was Incidentally , I did n't say to you that when they transcribe it , if a name comes up they , they just write erm do you want a cup of tea , name ? |
| 3 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 6 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 7 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 10 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 11 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 12 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 15 | Which can not be said of Volcano Theatre 's gritty down-to-earth production of Steve Berkoff 's From My Point of View . |
| 16 | ‘ You might not be saying that when the refugees come back from Australia , ’ Fergus said sourly . |
| 17 | And you wo n't be saying anything to that ponce of a boss you 've got , Howard ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that if we have to close the factory and put everybody out of work . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that tomorrow . ’ |
| 20 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 21 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 22 | " You 'll be coming back here now and then ; we sha n't be saying good-bye to you . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another . |
| 25 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 26 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 27 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 28 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 29 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 30 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |