Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] not be say " in BNC.

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1 They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law .
2 It simply can not be said how often two people with similar needs in this direction marry .
3 Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so .
4 But it certainly could not be said of the master-manufacturers that theirs was the whisper of a faction , nor of the unions in their post-1832 revolutionary phase that theirs was the voice of the nation .
5 Until the time for felling , it therefore could not be said which trees were within the contract .
6 If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk .
7 I must repeat , it is not the purpose of ‘ Documenta ’ to choose representatives from different countries : the Italian artists involved certainly can not be said to represent Italy .
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