Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 2 | There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed . |
| 3 | Many of the staff were ‘ rather pugnacious characters — it 's a pity this dynamicism ca n't be channelled into a less reactionary form ’ . |
| 4 | Peter Verkhovensky ca n't be fitted into this picture because his raison d'être is outside it , manipulating . |
| 5 | Unfortunately as we saw earlier with the housing discussions , we are very much a pint pot as the analogy was used and that a quart just ca n't be fitted into it . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes — feelings ca n't be put into words . ’ |
| 7 | You ca n't be put into |
| 8 | ‘ The supervisor has not learned one of the fundamentals of good supervision — that employees ca n't be forced into doing a good job . |
| 9 | Tha that 's one thing that ca n't be taken into consideration . |
| 10 | Ideas , it seems , can not be made into things , because various truths about them are not suitable for transmutation into truths about things . |
| 11 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 12 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 13 | The encounter between time and eternity can not be fitted into either pattern of interpretation . |
| 14 | Lighting circuit fuses are rated at 5amp ( yellow ) , 30amp ( red ) and 45amp ( green ) ; all are different sizes , with he exception of the 15 and 20amp fuses , so can not be fitted into the wrong fuseholder . |
| 15 | There is a whole range of language communication , particularly that which involves the interrelation between speaker and hearer , which can not be fitted into this conceptual view of semantics ( see 9.1–9.1.2 ) . |
| 16 | The fact that future generations may find themselves living in a warmer planet can not be built into today 's selection processes . |
| 17 | It can not be boxed into some neatly defined category as economics or sociology or politics or history . |
| 18 | Those cultural practices that can not be incorporated into the culture-ideology of consumerism become oppositional counter-hegemonic forces , to be harnessed or marginalized , and if that fails , destroyed physically . |
| 19 | It is true that water and watery substances can not be absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin , although the upper layers will temporarily hold a little water . |
| 20 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 21 | At temperatures and pressures above this point water vapour can not be converted into liquid water no matter how great the applied pressure ( see also section 3.1 ) . |
| 22 | A package can not be issued as a finished product if this is not done , and it can not be converted into a product at a later stage . |
| 23 | A package can not be issued as a finished product if this is not done , and it can not be converted into a product at a later stage . |
| 24 | ‘ Sundial may close if it can not be converted ’ The Sundial Hotel in Northallerton may close if it can not be converted into a nursing home , it was claimed this week . |
| 25 | Er without suitable sites and premises inward investment can not succeed since inquiries can not be converted into jobs . |
| 26 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 27 | Or , as Bernard Shaw more eloquently put it , ‘ The ocean of Socialism can not be poured into the pint pot of a nineteenth century parliament . ’ |
| 28 | This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum , which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum . |
| 29 | The trade union legislation introduced in Britain in the past decade has enabled the expression of a variety of worker attitudes to unionization , because it has ensured that workers can not be coerced into a union and it has also increased union democracy . |
| 30 | Against the Hegelian synthesis of all kinds of history within the same developmental schema , Bachelard argued that the history of science can not be assimilated into the progressive evolutionary form commonly ascribed to other kinds of human history , and nor can it be mapped on a one-to-one basis against the history of its age . |