Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] not be done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , he said , would clear the way for an interim repayment to the depositors , and although there were some small administration problems , he saw no reason why this should not be done in the ‘ near future ’ . |
| 2 | But this should not be done by measures which add to employment costs , they argue . |
| 3 | But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns . |
| 4 | Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission . |
| 5 | It was matched , operationally , by General Erskine 's conviction that the Chinese border could be made impregnable and the coastline sealed off to prevent external aid reaching the Vietminh ; although it was admitted this could not be done with existing forces on the border . |
| 6 | When a young worker offered one group the fact that in Germany workers had been given training to help people see themselves as not being ‘ simply cogs in a wheel ’ , it was suggested that this could not be done in Britain . |
| 7 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 8 | In this respect my position will amount to thinking that there are intrinsically prescriptive features to reality , but this will not be done by blurring the distinction between judgements about how the world is characterised and the ways in which we respond to it , as with McDowell . |
| 9 | The balance key must be used to maintain accuracy and if at any time this can not be done with the key , the matter should be reported immediately to your superior . |
| 10 | Obviously , this can not be done with a conventional typewriter . |
| 11 | This may become relevant if the parties wish to revoke or modify the right , for this can not be done without the third party 's assent , unless it was previously agreed otherwise . |
| 12 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 13 | I believe this can not be done by local authorities , however well meaning they are , nor by universities , however efficient , but only by voluntary bodies . |
| 14 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 15 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 16 | Unfortunately this can not be done in the UK House of Commons , and the cameraman has to identify the Member who has been called , often in the midst of a throng of Members competing for the Speaker 's eye , and then to add the computerized caption . |
| 17 | This can not be done from behind a desk as it requires direct observation of the operation , sometimes for an extended period , to find out what is actually done on site as well as what should be done . |
| 18 | However , this can not be done after hanning ; it is necessary to repeat the hanning on the transformed repeated median smooth . |
| 19 | Consequently , large-scale transposing of one set of legal rules from one jurisdiction to another can not be done without considering the implications of the relevant surrounding law . |
| 20 | He would have preferred holding her back but that could n't be done without her getting frightened that something bad had happened . |
| 21 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 22 | That can not be done on an on-off basis . |
| 23 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |