Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem of assignment has already been encountered : in Chapter 9 we saw how , although and are clearly distinct in most contexts , there are other contexts where we find a sound which can not clearly be said to belong to one or other of these two phonemes . |
| 2 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 3 | That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character . |
| 4 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 5 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 6 | The same can not yet be said about the idea of regression . |
| 7 | A less ominous formulation would be ‘ accountable to the community ’ ; yet , formulate it as we may , the notion can not confidently be said to afford a guarantee of efficiency , if the control or the accountability is to relate to its performance as business in operation . |
| 8 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 9 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 10 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 11 | Even employees who come into personal , face to face contact with the employer 's trade connections , can not always be said to have sufficient quality of contact . |
| 12 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 13 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 14 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 15 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |