Example sentences of "[pron] we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We reserve the right to refuse payment on any bet which we can not substantiate on the microfilm copy , or any bet which we have no record of . |
| 2 | These are part of the construct of contemporary childhood which we can not exclude and must not ignore . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In so doing , tragedy teaches us to contemplate with equanimity , indeed with serene detachment , that which we can not change and should therefore speedily abandon . |
| 10 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 11 | He explains this important possibility , of there being connections which we can not perceive , in terms of features of various sorts of complex idea . |
| 12 | However , the effects of legislation will , inevitably , be small relative to the impact of economic sources which we can not ignore . |
| 13 | which we can not speak : |
| 14 | to get the job done which we can not recover . |
| 15 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 16 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This new world will also be one in which we can not expect any new carrier to be able to enter the airline market to any competitive extent owing to lack of the large resources required . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The view of Flaxton is that the greenbelt should be kept tight round the urban area of York city , and it is because of that view that we think whether there is a need for a new settlement depends basically on the numbers game into which we can not go . |
| 21 | It could be that we are fatally drawn to the mysterious : the water is that which we can not fathom , the unfathomable . |
| 22 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We could learn from the American experience of using the National Guard not only to help with civil disasters but also with drug enforcement , which are both areas in which we can not have too much help , provided that it is properly directed and properly trained . |
| 25 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 26 | It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As well as employing some unfamiliar ear designs , many insects tune in to frequencies which we can not hear . |
| 30 | Flexibility is still possible in that there are in any one year at least as many shorter term visitors available which we can not feature on the Grid system . |