Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] can [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 9 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 10 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 15 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 18 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 19 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 20 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 21 | But if you are a farmer like me you can not avoid winter , whatever your age or physical condition . |
| 22 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |
| 23 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But not with what she can not bear , she spawns |
| 30 | 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 . |