Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] can not say " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far any homosexuality in the physical sense went on I can not say , mainly because I was rather naive about such matters , but rumours and counter-rumours abounded . |
| 2 | So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud . |
| 3 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 4 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 5 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Eventually I said angrily that ‘ surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 7 | But how she is surviving out there I can not say … ’ |
| 8 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 9 | The hour may come within weeks , within days , to-morrow ; and then , before I take the field with the fate of Wales in my hands , I have a need of her and a use for her here ; and then I shall be loosed from this dumbness that binds my tongue , and I shall be able to say to her what needs to be said , and what as yet I can not say . |
| 10 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 11 | ‘ Accordingly we can not say the verdict is safe and satisfactory , ’ he said . |