Example sentences of "he [vb mod] not be say " in BNC.

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1 If he really supports the work of the east London TEC , he should not be saying that firms should not spend 0.5 per cent .
2 But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’
3 Thus , because the taxpayer could not be said to control the trustees , he could not be said to have control over the application of the income within s742(e) .
4 If his excuse is that he will not be saying anything new , I hope that the newspapers will note that he will just be churning out the same old stuff yet again .
5 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 .
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