Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] can [not/n't] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The closure of our shop in Oxford Street cost us around £8,000 , for which you ca n't ever really budget . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power . |
| 26 | Beliefs are inconsistent when they can not both be true , attitudes are inconsistent when there are circumstances in which they can not ( in the same sense of ‘ can not ’ ) both be fully actualised in feeling and action . |
| 27 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 28 | But there 's always some manner in which we ca n't quite break free , and most of us will find ourselves one shocked moment holding a girlfriend or boyfriend in the way we 've seen our parents holding each other for years . |
| 29 | I mean there 's no doubt that in human terms that child needs that fifty pence more than you do , but we do n't because I mean there 's a level in which we ca n't because we have to somehow psychologically protect ourselves , and I believe we do do that by convincing ourselves that somehow people out there are not people in the same way that we are . |
| 30 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |