Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Working people are reduced to a relationship of immediacy from which they can not escape . |
| 33 | It is partly because they are desperate to divert attention from the recession — which they created , from which they can not escape and which will lose them the election — and partly because they are desperate to conceal the enormity of what they have done in wilfully impoverishing the poorer half of the nation . |
| 34 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 35 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 36 | A specific combination of sounds was ‘ sacred to a certain demon , for whom it has an unaccountable , mysterious , and irresistible fascination , from which he can not free himself . ’ |
| 37 | But there must be a point beyond which they can not go — some remaining ‘ self ’ to which social scientists appeal . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 43 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 44 | William Gallacher , looking back at the activity of the Women 's Peace Crusade in Glasgow at the end of 1917 , put the same point : ‘ … if you have the women with you there are no heights to which you can not rise . ’ |
| 45 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |