Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] can [adv] " 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 | They may not be the best of friends , but between them they can quite well be left in charge of Harry and Hillmarden for a few days . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 5 | But there are many matters about which one can not write … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is also a ‘ dead time ’ during which you can profitably respond . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is , for the viewer , the perfect world through which you can even make friends . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 16 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 17 | They say that the explosion was due to hitherto unknown chemical or physical events for which it can not be held responsible for failing to predict . |
| 18 | He was one of whom it can truly be said he could ‘ talk with crowds and keep his virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch ’ . |
| 19 | But a Churchill of whom I can only speak with deep affection is Randolph 's son , Winston . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 24 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 30 | 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 . |