Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are many matters about which one can not write … |
| 2 | There must be another language , dealing with the structure of the first and possessing a new structure about which one can not say anything except in a third language — and so forth . |
| 3 | L-Fields are links in a ‘ chain of authority ’ which starts with the simplest living forms , runs upward through all life on this planet to the most complex form we know — man — and then extends outward into space and upward to an ‘ infinite authority ’ , about which we can only speculate . |
| 4 | There are ‘ hidden ’ factors about which we can only speculate , such as the direct effects on sand-eel stocks from the greatly increased shoals of herring and mackerel which are the result of recent bans on fishing for these species . |
| 5 | This is also a ‘ dead time ’ during which you can profitably respond . |
| 6 | The most recent GUIs also incorporate a windowing facility enabling users to create a window within one application through which they can simultaneously run another . |
| 7 | It is , for the viewer , the perfect world through which you can even make friends . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 10 | With such a healthy list of urgent needs , advice workers might be excused if they become impatient when training for which they can not see an immediate need is imposed upon them . |
| 11 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 12 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 15 | In fact the mentality of the hearing is set to define dumbness as belonging to any vocal barrage of which one can not make heads or tails . |
| 16 | The crusade was inspired by many motives , of which one can surely say that the lowest — and perhaps , with less conviction , the highest too — were religious . |
| 17 | These machines , which are comparatively new to the domestic market , have jog/shuttle dials with the aid of which you can rapidly pinpoint edits by playing the tapes back and forth at any speed you like from single-frame and slo-mo to five or more times faster than normal . |
| 18 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 19 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 20 | Well — I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments , two of which I can only describe , the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me . |
| 21 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 22 | Thus the coarse grains will be driven up the slope DA and will come to rest in the lee of the crest , AB , past which they can not move because of the complete shelter here . |
| 23 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 24 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 25 | This much more elaborated nervous system is associated with a much greater range of what we can recognizably call adaptive behaviour . |
| 26 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 27 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 28 | In the case of the B flat Concerto ( and this is the only major piano work of this type that comes to mind ) , Brahms sometimes simply wrote down too many notes — unrestrained by the practicality of what you can actually play . |
| 29 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 30 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |