Example sentences of "[coord] which can [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding out which cars can and which can not is not difficult . |
| 2 | This too is a doom which must be faced , to know that which only few can know , and which can not be further explained . ’ |
| 3 | The rest is the information locked up in people 's brains and which can not be left behind . |
| 4 | As always , however , these are nicely balanced by examples of people who have gone ‘ a bridge too far ’ , stuck with totally unobtainable ambitions and allowed the whole company to be pushed into the pursuit , usually , of a product dream which the market has quite clearly rejected and which can not be made to fly . |
| 5 | Conditions had been miserable — and yet , as we climbed aboard the waiting mini-bus , we shared an exhilaration peculiar to bird watchers , and which can not be explained . |
| 6 | For a working constitution in a democracy implies reference to certain norms and standards which lie beyond and outside the document itself , and which can not easily be inferred from it by someone who is not steeped in the history and culture of the country concerned . |
| 7 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 8 | The re-emergence of feminism , which began as a flash of vision , and continued with an examination of the evils and gross distortions of patriarchy , and led to a whole variety of campaigns on behalf of women , now needs to concentrate on the differences between us as women which have divided us under patriarchy and which can not be allowed to divide us as feminists . |
| 9 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 10 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 11 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 12 | Despite the risks this must be a better investment of public money than the massive R and D devoted to defence , most of which will never give an economic return , and which can not — or certainly should not — be exported , for strategic reasons — not to mention moral ones . |
| 13 | The reason is that this is cash that banks are likely to need anyway , and which can not therefore be used to meet an increase in demand for cash . ) |
| 14 | Equally obviously , for any degree of smallness or crudeness of ancestral air-catching surfaces , there must be some distance , however short , which can be jumped with the flap and which can not be jumped without the flap . |
| 15 | This is the untold story of an exchange which rightly prides itself on an ability to offer efficient markets in leading shares but which can not cope with the unattractive smaller companies . |
| 16 | It is also seen as similarly elusive , something in terms of which everything else has objectivity but which can not itself be determined as an object . |
| 17 | It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell . |
| 18 | They will also try to inculcate you with a spurious respect for a ‘ culture ’ which not only fails to distinguish between what is good and what is profitable but which can not distinguish between substance and insubstantiality . |
| 19 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |
| 20 | There are several types of element which fail the straightforward version of the recurrent contrast test , and can not be rescued by any of the strategies suggested in the previous section , but which can not , unlike the — oss of moss , be dismissed as having no semantic relevance . |
| 21 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |