Example sentences of "[noun pl] that we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possible answer is to say that God chose the initial configuration of the universe for reasons that we can not hope to understand . |
| 2 | We have a God who longs to answer prayer ; a God who listens to our words and answers them ; a God who knows our thoughts and answers the prayers that we can not express in words ; a God whose ability to answer prayer is not limited by the finite , but who can do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 3 | What we think of in simple terms as electricity is related to the creative forces in the universe in ways that we can not imagine . |
| 4 | Secondly , I am impressed by the way in which my right hon. Friends have negotiated so positively on some aspects of the treaties , while at the same time drawing the line so firmly with our European partners on those parts of the treaties that we can not accept . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is because , though we can consciously trace the outline of the fear , it 68 CREATIVE WRITING reaches so far into the hidden recesses of our minds that we can not control the involuntary response . |
| 6 | We are ill-equipped to comprehend the very small and the very large ; things whose duration is measured in picoseconds or gigayears ; particles that do n't have position ; forces and fields that we can not see or touch , which we know of only because they affect things that we can see or touch . |
| 7 | What , then , of the arguments of the sceptics that we can not claim knowledge about reality ? |
| 8 | Certainly , they could not have studied the group if they had been honest about themselves , but perhaps that just means that there are some social contexts that we can not study . |