Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 5 | Which can not be said of Volcano Theatre 's gritty down-to-earth production of Steve Berkoff 's From My Point of View . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 14 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 15 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 16 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 17 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 18 | It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution ! |
| 19 | In so far as it is the case that , in the classical doctrine of the trinity , it is said that the three persons are alike in all save their mutual relations , when we are speaking of Christ as God , as the second person of the trinity , it can not be said of Christ that he is ‘ male ’ . |
| 20 | In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser . |