Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas , it seems , can not be made into things , because various truths about them are not suitable for transmutation into truths about things . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The encounter between time and eternity can not be fitted into either pattern of interpretation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The fact that future generations may find themselves living in a warmer planet can not be built into today 's selection processes . |
| 8 | It can not be boxed into some neatly defined category as economics or sociology or politics or history . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Er without suitable sites and premises inward investment can not succeed since inquiries can not be converted into jobs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum , which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A semantic constituent which can not be segmented into more elementary semantic constituents will be termed a minimal semantic constituent . |
| 23 | They certainly can not be turned into the stated goal of an academic programme . |
| 24 | But the fact is , the data in these studies can not be turned into generalizations , for they relate only to industries with high levels of vertical integration and economic concentration , involving an oligopolistic control over product supply frequently accompanied by a franchise relationship between manufacturer and seller . |
| 25 | It is now recognized that many seriously disabled patients can not be resettled into open employment but their need for real work can be met , none the less , by providing a special working environment where good job performance and long-term achievements are rewarded . |
| 26 | Sartre 's existential consciousness can not be dehistoricized into a general foundation for a concept of History . |
| 27 | But , besides the fact that the details of his method can not be read into many of the advances made in the sciences , his promise of certainty has come to seem inappropriate . |
| 28 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 29 | He goes on to argue that as the right side of the brain has no language capacity , the knowledge it acquires can not be put into words : this may explain the failure of his attempts to do so . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this advice can not be put into practice . |