Example sentences of "from which [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that there are very few places on Moila from which one can not see the sea . |
| 2 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 3 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 4 | The parties to a conflict remain , moreover , parts of a single society by virtue of their acknowledgement of a common name , by their participation in certain common divisions of labour and allocation from which they can not extricate themselves except by secession , emigration or anchoritic or cenobitic withdrawal . |
| 5 | Working people are reduced to a relationship of immediacy from which they can not escape . |
| 6 | It is partly because they are desperate to divert attention from the recession — which they created , from which they can not escape and which will lose them the election — and partly because they are desperate to conceal the enormity of what they have done in wilfully impoverishing the poorer half of the nation . |
| 7 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 8 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 9 | A specific combination of sounds was ‘ sacred to a certain demon , for whom it has an unaccountable , mysterious , and irresistible fascination , from which he can not free himself . ’ |