Example sentences of "which [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer . |
| 2 | you know , if you do n't pay half year they come and demand the lot which I ca n't make that |
| 3 | If you sent one , which I ca n't confirm from my files , and would like it returned , please contact me and I will see whether we can trace it . |
| 4 | ‘ Which I ca n't eat while you 're still upset . ’ |
| 5 | The stock consists of : one pair of Ps. lombardi , two Ps. socolofi ( which I ca n't sex ) , one pair of Labidochromis ewarti , a pair of Labidochromis chizimulu and two Labidochromis caeruleus ( unsexable ) . |
| 6 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 7 | It comes with a letter which I ca n't find you know , telling them about us . |
| 8 | ‘ I think John 's between record contracts , too , which I ca n't understand at all . |
| 9 | He makes some allegations which I ca n't understand . |
| 10 | A Scottish scientist named six breeds which are so powerful they can kill in seconds , including other breeds which I ca n't remember off-hand . |
| 11 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 12 | We 'll also be looking back a little bit at the Breeder 's Cup , we 'll also have the result of your poll for the Channel Four racing personality of the year , there 's the picture puzzle and lots of other things as well which I ca n't remember . |
| 13 | And there 's another one on the market which I ca n't remember the name of , which costs a lot more . |
| 14 | Lee Walker , of the League 's commercial department , confirmed the ‘ long-standing ’ arrangement , adding : ‘ We will receive a fee , which I ca n't divulge , for the service . ’ |
| 15 | For instance , take the word ‘ melin ’ ( which incidentally is not unlike the French word for mill — moulin ) : in certain situations , which I ca n't begin to understand , this becomes felin , the F being pronounced V. If you want the F sound , that 's two Fs . |
| 16 | ‘ With other illustrators , I work at a distance — we visit and phone , but there is a point at which I ca n't pester them any more , ’ Allan says . |
| 17 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |
| 18 | other remark , which I ca n't let go unchallenged , that ninety percent of mental health work in the m community is looking after the worried well . |
| 19 | which I ca n't live without . |
| 20 | It 's something for my wife which I ca n't afford cos I 've been off sick so I thought it would be something nice for her . |
| 21 | I have several directories on my hard disk which I can not delete/erase . |
| 22 | For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect . |
| 23 | Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion . |
| 24 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 25 | Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] . |
| 26 | I see the error — yet I can not correct it without overthrowing all ‘ rules and regulations ’ , which I can not persuade myself to do , even in a work of fiction . |
| 27 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say . |
| 30 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |