Example sentences of "can not be made [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 2 | A bees ' nest has only a single entrance , so air can not be made to flow through it as it does through a prairie dog 's tunnel . |
| 3 | When a tenant 's right to occupy comes to an end , the tenant can not be made to leave against his or her will , except by a court order . |
| 4 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 5 | ( b ) A bye-law made under this paragraph clearly can not be made to apply to hotel or restricted hotel licences . |
| 6 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |