Example sentences of "[pron] we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate . |
| 2 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 3 | He explains this important possibility , of there being connections which we can not perceive , in terms of features of various sorts of complex idea . |
| 4 | By it we must elevate ourselves , and not by space and time which we can not fill . |
| 5 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 6 | It could be that we are fatally drawn to the mysterious : the water is that which we can not fathom , the unfathomable . |
| 7 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 8 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 9 | However , the effects of legislation will , inevitably , be small relative to the impact of economic sources which we can not ignore . |
| 10 | Within a couple of years , non-standardization had claimed another victim ; but this time , the recorded legacy includes records which we can not play back electronically , because the mechanism has to work with a clockwork motor . |
| 11 | Not being in the present will contribute a great deal to the unhappiness caused by worries and anxieties of modem-day living , because we allow our minds to dwell upon the past which we can not change and the future which has not yet happened . |
| 12 | They live in a world of scents and aromas which we can not even begin to comprehend . |
| 13 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 14 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 15 | Now there are some serious theological problems here which we can not go into in this book ( see Aulén 1965 , and Walker forthcoming ) , but we can grasp the essential issues . |
| 16 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 17 | The New Testament teaches us that God is present and active in this world through his Holy Spirit , who is able to enter the hearts of individuals , giving new qualities of life and understanding in a way which we can not fully grasp , though we can experience it . |
| 18 | For example , the simplest desk-top computer functions through ‘ perceiving ’ shifting patterns of electrons , something which we can not do because we are not aware of electrons in everyday life . |
| 19 | As far as acquisition of language is concerned , it seems clear that reinforcement , casual observation , and natural inquisitiveness ( coupled with a strong tendency to imitate ) are important factors , as is the remarkable capacity of the child to generalise , hypothesise and ‘ process information ’ in a variety of very special and apparently highly complex ways which we can not yet describe or begin to understand , and which may be largely innate , or may develop through some sort of learning or through maturation of the nervous system . |
| 20 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 21 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 22 | In teaching and thinking about company law one of the themes which we can not afford to ignore is the way in which legal doctrine and scholarship provide a mode of legitimating corporate managerial power which draws on a set of background assumptions of political theory . |
| 23 | In the event that you have a dispute with us which we can not amicably resolve is you so wish the dispute may be referred to Arbitration under a special scheme which though devised by arrangement with ABTA is administered quite independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 24 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 25 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 26 | Further , there seems no reason to suppose that mental events do not also occupy space-as do other events of which we can not specify the minute space or the minute and myriad spaces which they occupy . |
| 27 | These states of motion are subject to instantaneous change through the act of measurement , in a process for which we can not claim to have discovered an exhaustive and convincing interpretation . |
| 28 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 29 | which we can not speak : |
| 30 | As well as employing some unfamiliar ear designs , many insects tune in to frequencies which we can not hear . |