Example sentences of "we can not say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not say that having faith in Christ makes life easy . |
| 2 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 3 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 4 | And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another . |
| 5 | We can not say that there is a separate , solid , objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways . |
| 6 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 7 | Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain . |
| 8 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 9 | We can not say that " eight " is more precise , in the context , than " seven " ( nor vice versa ) . |
| 10 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 11 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 12 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 13 | Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us . |
| 14 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 15 | By applying the Pareto condition , we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare . |