Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] can not be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , an Indian village producing Kashan-style rugs can not be said to be part of the Kashan weaving group ; nor can the Persian towns of Kashan and Arak be placed together , despite their relative proximity , because of the strong dissimilarities in their rugs . |
| 5 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 6 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 9 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |