Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stop telling me reasons why it ca n't be done , ’ the Prince thundered , ‘ and get on and find a way . ’ |
| 2 | It ca n't be done . ’ |
| 3 | How much longer would the silence last , when would someone say , please , stop , for heaven 's sake , give up , it ca n't be done ? |
| 4 | ‘ Charles dear , ’ said Dimity , ‘ it simply ca n't be done . |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 6 | It 's a bit like trying to put together a Lego Technic kit without the instruction leaflet or cook a complicated meal without a recipe book ; let's face it , it ca n't be done ! |
| 7 | At least I ca n't be done for being drunk in charge of a setter . ’ |
| 8 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 9 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 10 | Why it ca n't be done |
| 11 | It has to be rehearsed all together , it ca n't be done best if someone arrives two days before the performance . ’ |
| 12 | Helen is looking forward to the day when Jenny can also be treated but this ca n't be done until she stops growing . |
| 13 | It ca n't be done simply ! |
| 14 | It ca n't be done |
| 15 | Ca n't be done . ’ |
| 16 | But the er but it ca n't be done on modern alarms now because the bell boxes they use are anti-foam and they probably have two or three alarm |
| 17 | Think about the task naïvely , and it ca n't be done . |
| 18 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 19 | It ca n't be done , and if it could it would n't be any use ; If you play innocent and unnoticing too well , you wont attract suspicion , but you wo n't notice anything other . |
| 20 | It … it ca n't be done . ’ |
| 21 | If you tell me something ca n't be done , I 'll probably tell you it can and when I 've started on it things like sleep and food can become secondary . ’ |
| 22 | I regret , sir — it ca n't be done ! ’ |
| 23 | , It ca n't be done , it ca n't be done |
| 24 | , It ca n't be done , it ca n't be done |
| 25 | No no no ca n't be done have n't got a clue oh dear . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , it ca n't be done . ’ |
| 27 | He says that the NHS system in this country means results from treatment on patients can be passed onto drug companies — whereas in America the private patient system means this ca n't be done so easily . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 30 | Ours ours ca n't be done automated . |