Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] we can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These states of motion are subject to instantaneous change through the act of measurement , in a process for which we can not claim to have discovered an exhaustive and convincing interpretation . |
| 2 | Further , there seems no reason to suppose that mental events do not also occupy space-as do other events of which we can not specify the minute space or the minute and myriad spaces which they occupy . |
| 3 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 4 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 5 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 6 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |
| 7 | The view of Flaxton is that the greenbelt should be kept tight round the urban area of York city , and it is because of that view that we think whether there is a need for a new settlement depends basically on the numbers game into which we can not go . |
| 8 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 9 | This new world will also be one in which we can not expect any new carrier to be able to enter the airline market to any competitive extent owing to lack of the large resources required . |
| 10 | We could learn from the American experience of using the National Guard not only to help with civil disasters but also with drug enforcement , which are both areas in which we can not have too much help , provided that it is properly directed and properly trained . |
| 11 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 12 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 13 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 14 | In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all . |
| 15 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 16 | But we we can not It seems to me we can not end up with a blank sheet of paper , and draw a set of criteria up which says it it can be anywhere here . |
| 17 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 18 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 19 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 20 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |
| 21 | There was a mood , if we cloud all this up in realms of high theology then we shall all agree on what we can not understand . |
| 22 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |