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Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [be] said [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls .
2	And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty .
3	The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it .
4	On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic .
5	Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose .
6	Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line .
7	A covenant may very well have reference to the land , but , unless it is reasonably incidental to the relation of landlord and tenant , it can not be said to touch and concern the land so as to be capable of running therewith or with the reversion .
8	If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end .
9	Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success .
10	If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision .