Example sentences of "[prep] which [noun] can not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child . |
| 2 | ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child . |
| 3 | There are some crimes for which women can not be convicted ( e.g. homosexuality , rape ) ; courts may deal more leniently with females , and a proportion of female crime may remain undetected because the police are less sensitive to it . |
| 4 | Second , to trigger it requires a repetitive train of reasonably high-frequency pulses : the same number of pulses delivered more slowly is ineffective , so there is a threshold below which LTP can not be induced ; above this threshold , it can be developed gradually or in an all-or-none fashion , depending on the pattern , intensity and frequency of the conditioning train . |
| 5 | While there may be agreement about the lowest levels , below which standards can not be allowed to fall without grave risk to the old person and probably others , individual workers may have very different views and opinions about the acceptability of certain degrees of domestic and personal neglect . |
| 6 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 7 | There is a sense in which students can not be completely wrong . |
| 8 | There is no class of disease in which homoeopathy can not be used , although if the case has reached the stage of requiring surgery , for instance , this should not be delayed . |
| 9 | Such is the bread and butter of art history , the framework of precise historical knowledge without which interpretation can not be securely founded . |
| 10 | The war on the ground , without which Kuwait can not be freed , is still weeks away . |