Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 2 | As well as employing some unfamiliar ear designs , many insects tune in to frequencies which we can not hear . |
| 3 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 4 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 5 | However , the effects of legislation will , inevitably , be small relative to the impact of economic sources which we can not ignore . |
| 6 | It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee . |
| 7 | However , if decisions are to be made in Brussels by alien institutions whose representatives are not elected by us and by people who we can not remove , and those decisions damage my constituents , am I supposed to accept that ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not being in the present will contribute a great deal to the unhappiness caused by worries and anxieties of modem-day living , because we allow our minds to dwell upon the past which we can not change and the future which has not yet happened . |
| 11 | He explains this important possibility , of there being connections which we can not perceive , in terms of features of various sorts of complex idea . |
| 12 | These are part of the construct of contemporary childhood which we can not exclude and must not ignore . |
| 13 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By it we must elevate ourselves , and not by space and time which we can not fill . |
| 16 | We reserve the right to refuse payment on any bet which we can not substantiate on the microfilm copy , or any bet which we have no record of . |