Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] can [not/n't] [verb] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 5 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 10 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 17 | Think , too , about the circumstances under which you can not keep to your resolves , and analyse exactly what it is that makes you behave the way you do . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Working people are reduced to a relationship of immediacy from which they can not escape . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |