Example sentences of "[noun] can not [be] said [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud can not be said to have been unaware of the variability of human nature in different societies which have other economic arrangements and different cultural aims from those of Europe and America . |
| 2 | " 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , this particular entry , which is itself a text , coheres within itself , but its component elements can not be said to relate , or cohere , to the previous or following entries , except within the context of the whole handbook . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In that time , Mr Hurd can not be said to have stirred himself . |
| 8 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 9 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 12 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even if the column baseline is zero , the column height can not be said to represent anything real . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 20 | So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards . |
| 21 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 22 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 23 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 24 | ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals . |