Example sentences of "can [adv] be say " in BNC.

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1 Of course , I would be very guarded about allowing the Wizard from Oz 's sound to be the sole influence in choosing an instrument , because it ca n't be said often enough that a player 's style is almost as individual as his DNA .
2 A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence .
3 Although Quattro Pro 4 ca n't be said to make any task easier than in an equivalent Windows spreadsheet , what it does prove is that with very little limitation a DOS product can manage the same job as a Windows product any trouble at all .
4 Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ .
5 ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’
6 Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ .
7 For want of about £2 million , the same ca n't be said of the Vulcan Bomber .
8 What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " .
9 ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’
10 Clark simply refuses to allow that such behaviour by a creature lacking language transforms the content of what they can properly be said to fear or be distressed at .
11 That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped .
12 As can properly be said , the answer just given to the logical question rests essentially on an explained notion of lawlike connection .
13 The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute .
14 For communication involves the notions of intention and agency , and only those inferences that are openly intended to be conveyed can properly be said to have been communicated .
15 But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests .
16 All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point .
17 It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon .
18 However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target .
19 In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible .
20 As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat .
21 The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes .
22 Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ .
23 The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way .
24 Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence .
25 Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal .
26 It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design .
27 The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable .
28 But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’
29 Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound .
30 If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way .
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