Example sentences of "which could not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communists had decided to pursue a policy which could not be followed by the ILP . |
| 2 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 3 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 4 | The combination of deference to prosperity and literacy from one side , and the manipulation of equipment , local goods stores , and the like on the other easily created a vicious circle in Nikol'sk which could not be repeated in Ivanovka . |
| 5 | And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice . |
| 6 | Anything which could not be proven in a laboratory by scientific method — anything , that is to say , which was bigger than science — was ruled out of court . |
| 7 | In fact it is arguable whether such dualistic conditions ever existed anyway : marginal groups which could not be assimilated into the category of the working class were merely relegated by Marx to the Lumpenproletariat . |
| 8 | After establishing the fact that we had only one body , which could not be replaced by a trip to Marks and Spencers if it wore out , we discussed ways and means of preserving it ! |
| 9 | The human rights organization Amnesty International was supporting his case , claiming that he was suffering " life-threatening " diseases which could not be treated in prison . |
| 10 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
| 11 | The peasantry was constantly eroded by the proletarianisation of those whose holdings were too small to support them , or the emigration of those extra mouths which demographic growth multiplied , and which could not be fed on the family 's land . |
| 12 | The glorification of the west was at the expense of China 's own cultural heritage which could not be viewed in a totally negative light . |
| 13 | The hall itself was on the far side of a courtyard which could not be built upon as it had been the burial ground of the Quakers in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for latent defects in the equipment which could not be discovered with reasonable care . |
| 15 | The Serbs , however , had learned something from their experiments , and the taste of self-government , however limited , had given them a self-confidence which could not be crushed by the cruelty of their new masters . |
| 16 | Clovenstone Triangle The council decided to delete the proposal from the south west Edinburgh local plan but if any competent objections should be received , which could not be withdrawn by negotiation , it could be necessary to hold a second public local inquiry . |
| 17 | Clovenstone Triangle– The council decided to delete the proposal from the south west Edinburgh local plan but if any competent objections should be received , which could not be withdrawn by negotiation , it could be necessary to hold a second public local inquiry . |
| 18 | And large numbers can physically cause severe damage which could not be caused by a smaller number of people . |
| 19 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 20 | They maintained that there should be nothing in Church doctrine , ceremonies or organisation which could not be justified by texts in the Scriptures . |
| 21 | Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class . |
| 22 | In itself the Beveridge structure rested on a set of assumptions about employment and family allowances which could not be planned for and might easily have proved disastrously misplaced . |
| 23 | There is still more information which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 24 | There are still more products which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 25 | There are still more Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 26 | There are still more Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 27 | There is still more data available which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 28 | There is still more QA information available which could not be displayed on the screen due to size limitations . |
| 29 | In the FAP cases , minute adenomas and single gland adenomas , which could not be detected by naked eye , were easily recognised under the dissecting microscope ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 30 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |