Example sentences of "can not be made [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching at night is unlikely to prove popular ( with teacher or pupil ! ) and the night shift in a hospital ward can not be made equivalent to the day shift ( except for intensive care units which are continuously busy ) . |
| 2 | All macro-level features which can not be made intelligible in this way are regarded as being of secondary importance to the outcome of the story . |
| 3 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 4 | They can not be made wide enough … ’ |
| 5 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 6 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 7 | The contrast between self-criticism in science and an uncritical spirit in religion can not be made absolute . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the contrast between market-originated and producer-originated work can not be made absolute , once market conditions have been generalized . |
| 9 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 10 | In litigation and arbitration , the amount of the costs is subject to the control of the court 's " taxation " procedures , which are made available to arbitrations by s18(2) of the Arbitration Act 1950 , but can not be made available for expert determinations by any means , including a provision to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 11 | The task of child protection is , in a sense , the other side of the coin and one that can not be made easy for social workers , despite the sharper and hopefully more effective legal tools they will now have for the job . |
| 12 | We ignore those which can not be made basic ( no positive pivot ) or whose introduction into the basis would lead to a tableau already on our list . |
| 13 | The clients appreciate being kept in the picture , even if their stay can not be made shorter . |
| 14 | Because plutonium can not be made safe rapidly , Russia must at the very least compile and police a thorough inventory of its nuclear materials . |
| 15 | Reason is more certain than revelation , and can not be made any more certain by it . |
| 16 | A corporation can not be made bankrupt ; but a company formed under the Companies Act 1985 or similar earlier Acts can be wound up , and its property distributed , according to rules similar to those applicable to bankruptcy . |