Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] not [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 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Shadow environment secretary Jack Staw said : ‘ This was an historic betrayal by the Liberals for which they will not long , nor lightly , be forgiven . ’ |
| 6 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 7 | These developed from the legal concept of ultra vires ( beyond the strength ) which , since the mid nineteenth century , had prohibited local councils from doing anything for which they could not show precise legal authority . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 11 | Sparing the time to make these two visits may show ways of substantially increasing the household income , and reducing its outgoings on rent , rates , prescription charges and many other expenses for which you may not have realised there is help available . |
| 12 | Poisons for which you must not cause vomiting include oily substances like furniture polish , and corrosive substances such as caustic soda , weed killer , disinfectant , acid and insect sprays . |
| 13 | He was subject to influences for which he could not compensate ’ . |
| 14 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 15 | No look , every employee needs to be set standards of achievement below which he must not fall . |
| 16 | There something terrible has happened to them of which they will not speak : ‘ A darkness lies behind us … and we have turned our backs on it ’ ( p. 141 ) . |
| 17 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I know there is something in your past of which you will not speak . |
| 22 | The Belgian watched the television , of which he could not understand a word . |
| 23 | In his dreams , Boyd Stych made a million for his son out of forty-storey apartment blocks , and was chased by a flying book the name of which he could not see . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 26 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 27 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mr McMillan said : ‘ They have been guilty of what we would not expect from professional people in the late twentieth century . |
| 30 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |