Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which [pron] 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 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 .
3 If your dog shows a marked degree of aggression with which you can not cope , you must get it to someone who understands the breed and can help .
4 But there must be a point beyond which they can not go — some remaining ‘ self ’ to which social scientists appeal .
5 Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere .
6 These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate .
7 An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness .
8 A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue .
9 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 .
10 These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power .
11 But the exercise of choice must be a special one , for it must alert the parties to the fact that they are about to enter a binding commitment from which they can not simply opt out .
12 If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics .
13 In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago .
14 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 .
15 Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide .
16 This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation .
17 This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee .
18 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 .
19 Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided .
20 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 ) .
21 I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications .
22 The parties to a conflict remain , moreover , parts of a single society by virtue of their acknowledgement of a common name , by their participation in certain common divisions of labour and allocation from which they can not extricate themselves except by secession , emigration or anchoritic or cenobitic withdrawal .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll .
26 Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn .
27 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 .
28 Working people are reduced to a relationship of immediacy from which they can not escape .
29 If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed .
30 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 ) .
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