Example sentences of "they can not be said " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it .
2 On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic .
3 This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves .
4 Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose .
5 Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line .
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