Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] it can [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 2 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 3 | Do not allow the civil service to say that there are ways in which it can not be done . |
| 4 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 5 | A semblance of opposition helps Kenya 's case with the foreign donors without whom it can not prosper . |
| 6 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 7 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 8 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 9 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 10 | Sometimes the stream will develop to a position in which it can not move anywhere without violating one of the two rules ( no flow reversal and no joining itself ) . |
| 11 | They say that the explosion was due to hitherto unknown chemical or physical events for which it can not be held responsible for failing to predict . |
| 12 | Then the hunter does not waste its time on something it can not eat , and the hunted saves its secretions . |