Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | If research can be done in Holland and the USA , I do n't see why it should n't be done in Britain , except I suspect that some British police forces are just hostile to outsiders . |
| 2 | Well it should n't be done anyway . |
| 3 | It should n't be done |
| 4 | And your man Jimmy Hill said that afterwards , like that was n't fair , it should n't be done on that . |
| 5 | Yet the politics of regional development — the Socialists have poured billions of pesetas into infrastructure projects in the barren south of the country — or the promotion of Spain 's high-speed train , the AVE , put González closer to the European model of public funding for social development , in contrast to the English sterility that , if development can not be privately funded , it should not be done . |
| 6 | Mistakes made by confusing and mixing units are very prevalent , so this conversion should be the first part of the answer to the question ; it should not be done on scraps of paper . |
| 7 | And I said or shall I it might not be done then I said so I 'll have to air them . |
| 8 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |
| 9 | It could easily be done . |
| 10 | It could easily be done here . |
| 11 | It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough . |
| 12 | No one , so far as I know , has ever questioned such a suspension on the ground that it could not be done unless he is given notice of the charge and an opportunity of defending himself and so forth . |
| 13 | While the seamen 's leaders freely admitted that a national union was the right thing , they also declared that it could not be done . |
| 14 | It could not be done on this day and at this spot but he had heard and seen enough of the bouldery , rocky , unstable earth treachery of the district to know that it was possible . |
| 15 | For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery . |
| 16 | ‘ They ’ said it could n't be done . |
| 17 | The tiler said it could n't be done . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of people said it could n't be done , but we did it . ’ |
| 19 | At the time , I wrote to Knitmaster ( as was ) , explaining what I wanter to do , but I was told that it could n't be done . |
| 20 | But it could n't be done . |
| 21 | You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done . |
| 22 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 23 | Everybody said it could n't be done . |
| 24 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 25 | " Alligator " pulls it off They said it could n't be done . |
| 26 | An Olivetti representative said it could n't be done . |
| 27 | Owen wanted to say it could n't be done . |
| 28 | It could n't be done . ’ |
| 29 | Everybody said it could n't be done . |
| 30 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |