Example sentences of "[noun] that i can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For reasons that I can not understand , ’ he continued , ‘ we in Britain seem to have a negative response to winners . |
| 2 | But at least in the midst of my misery I can own what I have instead of feeling I am a pawn in another 's game with rules that I can not stick to or change . |
| 3 | It is a pity that I can not read out that speech because time is so short . |
| 4 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 6 | There is Harriet Jacobs , 20 years after abolition , working as a nanny to four children in a house with lB rooms writing : Poor Hatty 's name is so much in demand that I can not accomplish much ; if I could steal away and have two quiet months to myself … |
| 7 | Mr Laird said : ‘ Unless there is some event , some circumstance , some miracle that I can not see , then I repeat there is a possibility that the plant will cease to exist . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Unless there is some event , some circumstance , some miracle that I can not see , then I repeat there is a possibility that that plant will cease to exist . ’ |
| 9 | Your letter makes so much sense that I can not understand the recommendations of so many manufacturers to regularly fully discharge NiCad batteries . |
| 10 | Abuse and scorn were heaped upon it with an intensity of attack that I can not remember experiencing previously in my political career . |
| 11 | There are realities that I can not change . |
| 12 | First , ‘ There is a broad , ugly ditch of history that I can not jump across . ’ |
| 13 | Streamline 's method offers such a wide range of activities and tasks that I can not see it having anything other than effective and long-lasting results . ’ |
| 14 | And it poses a problem that I can not solve . |
| 15 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |