Example sentences of "can [adv] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I 'm technically retired I ca n't say that I 'll resign if you disagree with my request — and particularly that we should remove my reconstruction as quickly as is feasible , but I do feel it that strongly and I shall publish whatever you decide . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
| 3 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 4 | I ca n't say that I keep a distance , because I do n't . |
| 5 | I ca n't say that I 've even found cases with definite pathology needing to dilute more . |
| 6 | They ca n't say that I 'm in a druggy haze or that I 'll get out of it . |
| 7 | There is something so immovable , so enduring — yet I am perfectly aware that one day he will fall down — so mysterious about my old mate that although I ca n't say that I actually feel a surge of energy , I do feel some sort of ‘ reward ’ . |
| 8 | And you ca n't say that a woman on her own , going out to work , with no kids , just doing for herself , is a housewife like say I 'm a housewife . |
| 9 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 10 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 11 | ‘ Now you ca n't say that talent is being suffocated any more . |
| 12 | I ca n't say that the sound of the Vox Teardrop is straight out of the '60s . |
| 13 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 14 | I ca n't say that I mind . ’ |
| 15 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 16 | It shows that people who insist ‘ that 's not what it means ’ or ‘ you ca n't say that ’ rest their case not on the facts of language , but on the arrogance of power . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't say that I remember a case . |
| 18 | You ca n't say that all music made by machines is robotic and unfeeling , just because you play guitars it does n't mean you 've got soul . |
| 19 | As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one . |
| 20 | Well , I still ca n't imagine what his game is , and I ca n't say that I like it . ’ |
| 21 | When I look at my colleagues in the US , I ca n't say that total competition is total success . ’ |
| 22 | While we ca n't say that we are in complete agreement with Barry Graham 's ‘ with one bound , IBM was free ’ analysis of the company 's manifold problems and its prospects , written up in today 's page two , there is no doubt that IBM Corp is suffering from a deep crisis of confidence , and his messianic defence of the mainframe makes it quite clear that the man who should be running IBM in succession to John Akers is — Barry Graham . |
| 23 | I ca n't say that my revelations were having any effect on the Inspector . |
| 24 | I thought Alan Bowness , former director of the Tate , was a very good man , but I ca n't say that I 've known intimately very many of the museum people either in England or in the States . |
| 25 | In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point . |
| 26 | " I ca n't say that I see why not . |
| 27 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 28 | Yo , but you ca n't say that either one of these and either one of these are positional isomers cos their carbon skeletons are different . |
| 29 | Yeah , but you ca n't say that because I know someone with six children and they 've |
| 30 | When one morning she told me that they were going away , I ca n't say that it was a surprise . |