Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] which can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ideals or values are essentially statements of faith which can not be logically sustained then much of our examination will be concerned with persuasion rather than with facts in themselves . |
| 2 | I ca n't describe my feeling — a sort of emptiness , which is dreadfully painful — a sort of longing which can not be satisfied , but never goes away , indeed it increases daily … . ’ |
| 3 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 4 | those which employ a method or means of combat which can not be directed at a specific military objective ; or |
| 5 | But the above passage constitutes , in my judgment , an approach to the exercise of discretion which can not be faulted . |
| 6 | Addressing a closed session of the meeting , Arafat said that the PLO rejected the USA 's conditions for a resumption , and Voice of Palestine said in a commentary on July 18 that the USA 's setting of conditions for the resumption of contacts was " a blatant act of belligerence which can not be condoned " . |
| 7 | Given the generous relief against forfeiture provisions contained in s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 a tenant should have little to fear from a forfeiture clause unless it is seriously in financial difficulties or has committed a serious breach of covenant which can not be rectified . |
| 8 | where there is a demonstrable need for a certain grade of coal which can not be met from deep mines , and |
| 9 | Some constructs may reflect pre-verbal bases of organization which can not be accounted for by rational explanation . |
| 10 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 11 | It is , in the first instance , a metaphor for that portion of the sense of worthlessness which can not be denied , whatever the anorexic 's outward behaviour is saying to the contrary . |
| 12 | I should add that in any event the Bank of England are in my judgment entitled to the presumption of regularity both as to reasonableness and as to the scope of their functions , and Mr. Philipson has not been able to point to any evidence of fact which can not be reconciled with them having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 13 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |
| 14 | AD 180 , to coincide with the account of an invasion of northern Britain by the historian Cassius Dio ; the wholesale acceptance of this view , though , causes some strains in interpretation which can not be easily reconciled , chief among them being the implication that the damaged forts and other frontier works were left in a state of disrepair for the best part of 25 years , an unbelievable occurrence in Roman military affairs of the period . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 16 | ‘ the presumption that the inspector [ in a revenue case ] acted intra vires when giving the notice can only be displaced by evidence which can not be reconciled with the inspector having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 17 | I am very concerned about the implications of this judgement if the effect is to sanction death by starvation which can not be morally right . ’ |