Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be made [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Products for which they have authority to supply are also given code numbers and unless invoices are referenced to order number , with suppliers and product codes , payment can not be made without investigation .
2 Progress can not be made without exploring blind alleys .
3 Seemingly , as the rules are at present drafted , if no " return day " as defined has been fixed , then amendment of a pleading can not be made without leave ( see Ord 7 , r 17 ) .
4 The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce .
5 A compensatory , as opposed to a restitutionary , order can not be made under subsection ( 2 ) , but only under subsections ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , and only against the contravener .
6 The definition of a major injury widened with the introduction of RIDDOR ( The reporting of injuries , diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 1985 introduced 1986 ) and therefore comparisons can not be made with data collected under NADOR ( The notification of accidents and dangerous occurrences regulations ) .
7 But if an alliance can not be made with the parents against what feels uncontrollably bad inside them , they may defect and identify with the ‘ bad ’ .
8 Estimates of the useful lives of plant and equipment can not be made with precision and in practice a range of lives exist .
9 it may be flattering to be taken for the head of the firm if you are not , but it is not good business , and sound progress can not be made with anyone on a false footing , in fact , it must be obvious that the greater the respect you hold and encourage towards any of your seniors , the better the position they will be in to assist you in any difficulties which may arise .
10 However , the boast of British literary artistic freedom can not be made with confidence , given a vague law and a swinging moral pendulum .
11 It 's a tragedy that more commercial use can not be made of the waterways .
12 Ideas , it seems , can not be made into things , because various truths about them are not suitable for transmutation into truths about things .
13 Now , according to Lorenz , the dichotomous distinction between instinctive and learned behaviour can not be made for development , but it can for adaptation .
14 A claim under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act can not be made for any damage to the defective product itself .
15 One snag is that some statistical tests , especially calculations of sample error , can not be made on quota sampling because they are not based on random sampling .
16 Although differential diagnoses can not be made on the evidence of a postal survey alone , an attempt was made to identify factors that aid diagnosis .
17 The differentiation between patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and those with omeprazole treatment for reflux oesophagitis can not be made on the basis of the pepsinogen A:C ratio , although a low ratio may suggest treatment with omeprazole and a pepsinogen A:C ratio greater than 4.7 Zollinger-Ellison syndrome .
18 Although changes in global policy can not be made on the basis of the present study alone , the results suggest that a supplemental dose of IPV or OPV administered at the time of measles vaccination might increase a population 's immunity against poliovirus types 1 and 3 .
19 Assessment can not be made at birth because antibodies to HIV from the mother cross the placenta , and though these would be detected in an HIV antibody test , it would not show whether the baby itself was infected .
20 ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath .
21 If jade is not polished it can not be made worth anything .
22 New services or changes in information can not be made until a complete revision of the guide the following year .
23 protests can not be made by the contestant involved .
24 An entry can not be made by an instrument used to make an entry such as a key or piece of wire used to pull back internal bolts .
25 They can claim to represent local public opinion ; such a claim can not be made by those who serve on public bodies as a result of government nomination .
26 ‘ For the purposes of this section a threat can not be made by the use of words alone . ’
27 The ions and many of the compounds can not be made by direct combination of their constituent elements .
28 Extrapolations for drug costs can not be made from the prescribing unit because of the age and sex related differences in costs per item that we have shown .
29 Whilst general claims about the prevalence of such awareness and commitment in the teaching population as a whole can not be made from such a small sample , it would seem safe to assume that the ‘ scene is set ’ as regards ‘ good will ’ .
30 It is felt that inter-university comparisons can not be made from the data obtained here , because of the different conditions of use in different libraries , and so the data will only be used here in aggregation .
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