Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court can not attach a meaning to words which they can not bear , but if the words are capable of bearing more than one meaning why should not Parliament 's true intention be enforced rather than thwarted ? |
| 2 | At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say . |
| 3 | There is no point in having access to information that you can not understand , or having the opportunity to propose policies which you can not formulate . |
| 4 | As well as employing some unfamiliar ear designs , many insects tune in to frequencies which we can not hear . |
| 5 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 6 | Do these theoretical ideologies provide a strategic grasp of racism , or do they raise expectations which they can not fulfil ? |
| 7 | If patients ask specific questions which you can not deal with you should always refer this to sister . |
| 8 | However , the effects of legislation will , inevitably , be small relative to the impact of economic sources which we can not ignore . |
| 9 | It is absolutely futile to try to make plans for conditions which you can not foresee , ( Hear , hear ) . |
| 10 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 11 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 12 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
| 13 | As I have already made clear before , every such particular has certain " essential " properties which it can not shed without ceasing to be what it is ; but although its having such properties is necessary to its identity , it is not quite sufficient to explain its existential uniqueness . |
| 14 | It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee . |
| 15 | For while the persons in the original position take no interest in one another 's interests , they know that they have ( or may have ) certain moral and religious interests and other cultural ends which they can not put in jeopardy . |
| 16 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 17 | In teaching and thinking about company law one of the themes which we can not afford to ignore is the way in which legal doctrine and scholarship provide a mode of legitimating corporate managerial power which draws on a set of background assumptions of political theory . |
| 18 | Now within that situation Tolstoy paints a picture in which the , even the greatest generals are in fact subject to forces which they can not control . |
| 19 | Examples are our economy , which becomes more and more a credit economy , or our science , in which most scholars must use innumerable results of other scientists which they can not examine . |
| 20 | He explains this important possibility , of there being connections which we can not perceive , in terms of features of various sorts of complex idea . |
| 21 | The purchaser will insist on an asset sale either because he has identified significant liabilities which he can not risk or because he is simply nervous as to the general state of the business and the risk of unforeseen liabilities . |
| 22 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 23 | Within a couple of years , non-standardization had claimed another victim ; but this time , the recorded legacy includes records which we can not play back electronically , because the mechanism has to work with a clockwork motor . |
| 24 | Good co-operation between the physiotherapist , occupational therapist and nurse is vital : the patient must not be taught several different ways of doing the same dressing task , nor must he be given tasks which he can not achieve . |
| 25 | ‘ They desperately need the improved genetics of UK stock for these breeds which they can not get elsewhere , ’ said an MLC spokesman . |
| 26 | There are also sexual impulses which they can not incorporate in relationships with their wives , because they and their wives think it would be too animal-like and demeaning to perform them . |