Example sentences of "can not be done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balance key must be used to maintain accuracy and if at any time this can not be done with the key , the matter should be reported immediately to your superior . |
| 2 | Obviously , this can not be done with a conventional typewriter . |
| 3 | However , arithmetic can not be done on these byte strings as they stand ; instead they must be converted to a different string data-type , known as packed decimal . |
| 4 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 5 | That can not be done on an on-off basis . |
| 6 | There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway . |
| 7 | A behaviour that can not be done at the same time as the problem behaviour . |
| 8 | The pastoral work of the church can not be done without adequate financial support and I am afraid the support we are getting at the moment is simply not enough for all we are doing . ’ |
| 9 | Consequently , large-scale transposing of one set of legal rules from one jurisdiction to another can not be done without considering the implications of the relevant surrounding law . |
| 10 | This may become relevant if the parties wish to revoke or modify the right , for this can not be done without the third party 's assent , unless it was previously agreed otherwise . |
| 11 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 12 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 13 | Increasing loan redemption periods can not be done without incurring costs in the form of interest charges . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it is fairly obvious that " strong " stemming — the removal of longer and more " meaningful " suffixes such as " ization " " ism " and ability " often can not be done without drastically altering the sense of a search ( consider " organ " " organic " " organism " and " organization " ) . |
| 15 | However , before these aims can be achieved , we first of all have to recruit and this , as I said before , can not be done without literature required . |
| 16 | For example , if we wish to delete the information that Martin is studying B742 , it can not be done without deleting the information that Prof. Harris teaches the module B742 . |
| 17 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 18 | I believe this can not be done by local authorities , however well meaning they are , nor by universities , however efficient , but only by voluntary bodies . |
| 19 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 20 | Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation . |
| 21 | This is easily seen in the mundane example of housework , which can not be done by making sporadic once-off assaults on it , but needs constant attention . |
| 22 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 23 | It is only through education that any change is possible in this area ; it can not be done by force , and at one stroke , as was attempted in the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 24 | I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then |
| 25 | The derivation of such specifications can not be done by the user alone . |
| 26 | Initially , then , on being approached to promote an order , it is the task of the agent to confirm that the order is in fact viable , that is to say , that the objects of the order can not be achieved without an order confirmed by parliament — that it can not be done by other means . |
| 27 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 29 | This can not be done from behind a desk as it requires direct observation of the operation , sometimes for an extended period , to find out what is actually done on site as well as what should be done . |
| 30 | However , this can not be done after hanning ; it is necessary to repeat the hanning on the transformed repeated median smooth . |