Example sentences of "could not be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows . |
| 2 | The in-between bits — what some call life — seemed by such standards to be so much waste of time , which they could not be done with fast enough . |
| 3 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 4 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 5 | If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats . |
| 6 | It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough . |
| 7 | Some visits could not be done with students and so work had to be reorganised . |
| 8 | She was furious that the work could not be done during the festive season . |
| 9 | When a young worker offered one group the fact that in Germany workers had been given training to help people see themselves as not being ‘ simply cogs in a wheel ’ , it was suggested that this could not be done in Britain . |
| 10 | Thessy and I would have a chance to strengthen the rigging during our two-week trial period with the twins , but some jobs simply could not be done at sea . |
| 11 | But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns . |
| 12 | All this could not be done single-handed , and Lanfranc 's most important innovation was to bring new men from Bec and Caen to occupy all the main offices in the monastery at Canterbury , and to be ready for promotion wherever they were needed . |
| 13 | Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission . |
| 14 | It was matched , operationally , by General Erskine 's conviction that the Chinese border could be made impregnable and the coastline sealed off to prevent external aid reaching the Vietminh ; although it was admitted this could not be done with existing forces on the border . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some consideration was given to whether the defect in Form N79 could be cured by this court under section 13 of the Act of 1960 or under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , but it was held that this could not be done . |
| 17 | While the seamen 's leaders freely admitted that a national union was the right thing , they also declared that it could not be done . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was to be an avenging angel : Justice , putting right what could not be done through the courts . |
| 20 | Feeling rather ill due to lack of visibility , we stumbled into Chalet des Pierres , just above Courchevel 1850 , and were disheartened to feel that justice could not be done to such a fantastic display of food . |
| 21 | In the 1930s Randall had advocated that the improvement of the catalogue could not be done any study of the catalogs themselves ' but by making " an intelligent study of the patrons themselves , their mental equipment and their needs " , Alter more than 50 years this holds true more than ever before . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This could not be done where the contract was for the sale of purely generic goods . |
| 24 | Without their efforts this vital work could not be done . |
| 25 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |