Example sentences of "nothing can be do " in BNC.

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1 Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem .
2 Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed .
3 Another said , ‘ The way I look at it , it 's too late now ; there 's nothing can be done which can put the clock back ; let's see what we can do to help the victim ’ ( FN 6/11/87 , p. 35 ) .
4 Only I remember and nothing can be done .
5 Nothing can be done without the spirit of contradiction ’ .
6 Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem .
7 I consider the distress of the farmers so great that nothing can be done to save many from absolute ruin .
8 Nothing can be done for them now .
9 In other words there is little pay off in providing an explanation which implies nothing can be done .
10 The next day Chudnovsky came to me in tears , ‘ You know , nothing can be done ’ .
11 Therefore , it is my opinion that nothing can be done to engender additional assistance of the type requested unless the State Department secures authority therefore …
12 The constitution still stands and nothing can be done until it is changed .
13 Data files for use by computers might contain data about fonts and help systems , but nothing can be done with that information without the assistance of a program file containing the relevant instructions .
14 So nothing can be done for another year .
15 Nothing can be done .
16 If nothing can be done to save her , I almost wish she was already dead . ’
17 Do you hear me , nothing can be done , by you , or by anyone else . ’
18 Nothing can be done , ’ replied Doctor Lanyon .
19 It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition : action requires illusion .
20 ‘ There 's nothing can be done about it now , if it 's not .
21 What is depressing about that campaign is its spineless acceptance that nothing can be done to improve public services without throwing huge amounts of money at them .
22 I stress again that where there has been unlawful subletting which has determined ( and which has not been waived ) there has been a breach which at common law entitles the lessor to re-enter : nothing can be done to remedy that breach : the expiry of the subterm has not been annulled or remedied the breach : in such a case the lessor plainly need not , in his section 146 notice , call upon the lessee to remedy the breach which is not capable of remedy , and is free to issue his writ for possession , the possibility of relief remaining .
23 As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them .
24 It could be that nothing can be done , but we ought to be seen to be taking action over this .
25 And the Social Services are helpless too , unless Andrew decides to help himself and come off glue , nothing can be done to protect him .
26 In desperation they turned to Central South … furious that apparently nothing can be done
27 ‘ At present the Government 's mind-set appears to be that nothing can be done without a smile of approval from Dublin , which never comes .
28 ‘ It appears nothing can be done until the next round of bids which are not out until later this year after the general election .
29 there 's nothing can be done , than the
30 Although he claims nothing can be done immediately to prevent the cancellation of non-urgent admissions , he 's convinced the hospital will be one of the beneficiaries of the proposed N H S reforms .
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