Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keepers also appear to be a knowledgeable and dedicated group of people , for whom I can only express my admiration of their hard work . |
| 2 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 3 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 4 | But there are many matters about which one can not write … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is also a ‘ dead time ’ during which you can profitably respond . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is , for the viewer , the perfect world through which you can even make friends . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 15 | But a Churchill of whom I can only speak with deep affection is Randolph 's son , Winston . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 17 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 18 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 19 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In that case we will attempt to do this now and we 'll talk about interval naming afterwards those of you who can please attempt it there will be questions here that some of us ca n't . |