Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be said in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |
| 2 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 3 | Whereas a person involved in the American Mafia could say , quite reasonably , ‘ what 's all the fuss about , we only kill each other ’ , the same could not be said in defence of some corporate crimes . |
| 4 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
| 5 | In housing , inequalities in basic standards have narrowed but the same can not be said in relation to the social standards of housing . |
| 6 | So that can hardly be said in itself to constitute an intolerable situation . ’ |