Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [adv] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 2 | Some of the others — Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie , for example — could not really be said to have voices at all . |
| 3 | But Mr Baker argued that we could not really be said to have a national system at all when there is no nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 4 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 5 | It could not therefore be said that the defendant was assuming any rights . " |
| 6 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |