Example sentences of "[noun sg] can not [be] say " in BNC.

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1 " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . "
2 Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic .
3 If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’
4 At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price .
5 With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment .
6 If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way .
7 That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant .
8 That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working .
9 A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) .
10 Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded .
11 Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA .
12 So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage .
13 There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise .
14 Even if the column baseline is zero , the column height can not be said to represent anything real .
15 As long as expenditure can not be said to apply in support of specific candidates , national party campaigns do not fall foul of the election finance restrictions .
16 Where a previous Court of Appeal decision can not be said to be in line with the House of Lords ' authority on the same subject .
17 For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership .
18 A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another .
19 ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals .
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