Example sentences of "[noun] which can not [be] " in BNC.

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1 It is fairly safe to eat game and animals which can not be intensively reared .
2 Video pictures are recorded in the form of overlapping magnetic signals which can not be cut and respliced without severely disrupting the pictures when the tape is played back .
3 Therefore , we believe that the introduction of the issue of human rights and respect for human dignity into the education system and the adoption of measures aimed at promoting these values are essential steps which can not be postponed . ’
4 Ideology is , therefore , a solution in the mind to contradictions which can not be solved in practice ; it is the necessary projection in consciousness of man 's practical inabilities .
5 It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses .
6 Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods .
7 Derek Bond ( Guardian 22.8.89 ) , assistant general secretary of the sea officers union UMAST , pointed out that adequate rest periods for crews is a mere recommendation which can not be enforced .
8 ( ii ) an anomaly which can not be removed by replacing one or more open set items , but can be removed by changing one or more closed set items , is purely grammatical ;
9 This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can .
10 There are certain words which can not be pronounced using the GPC route , however , and these are words with irregular grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences .
11 Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can .
12 From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified .
13 Fifthly , the production and determination of ideology is mediated through human practice which can not be reduced solely to the reproduction of material relations .
14 Bangor 's 80-year-old Carnegie Library , situated in Hamilton Road , is in constant need of repair , with a large stock of books which can not be put on public display because of the limited floor space .
15 The limitations associated with conventional doorbells and chimes which can not be heard clearly in rooms far away from the source of the sound , or in the garden , are overcome with a new portable wire-free doorchime from Friedland .
16 Other features of the phenomena which can not be treated in this way are ignored or denied any narrative or causal significance .
17 The finding that the smooth muscle MHC gene encodes multiple isoforms suggests that the proteins originally designated as SM1 and SM2 MHC probably represent multiple forms which can not be separated by one dimensional SDS-PAGE analysis .
18 Finally , quality control : it is a complex , sophisticated and highly responsible enterprise , demanding knowledge and skills which can not be presumed and therefore require proper training , together with a full and open debate with those whose work is under review about the criteria whereby quality is to be judged .
19 However , disputes arising out of , or in connection with , this contract which can not be amicably settled , may ( if you so wish ) be referred to arbitration under a special Scheme , which , though devised by arrangement with the Association of British Travel Agents , is administered quite independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators .
20 Relativism is a stance which assumes that opinions which can not be tested scientifically are just subjective and relative to the particular context giving rise to them , to cultural upbringing and different individual and group experience .
21 It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute .
22 However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) .
23 This idea can now be refined through Bourdieu 's concept of habitus , in which the social group 's perspective upon some form is always predicated upon the historical construction of its dispositions , interaction being a conjunc-ture which can not be reduced merely to its immediate context ( Bourdieu 1977 : 81 ) .
24 In each case the land has been exploited far beyond its true potential — out of dire necessity during the Wars , and now for blind greed and short-term gain resulting in vast surpluses which can not be eaten or sold .
25 Under strict liability , the defendant is held liable , even in the absence of negligence , because the enterprise is judged to involve unusual dangers which can not be eliminated even by the utmost care .
26 Only one stitch pattern at a time can be downloaded from DesignaKnit to the knitting machine and any patterns currently in the memory of the knitting machine will be erased ( this does not of course apply to the built in Stitch World patterns which can not be erased ) .
27 It is precisely this weighting which can not be observed for art works .
28 He believes that things are as they seem to Dr Serafin ; that he is putting up proposals which are as sound as his judgement and experience can make them , that he is withdrawing them in deference to Serafin 's objections , and that he will be forced to formulate alternative proposals which can not be known to him yet because they will take their rise from views Serafin has still not expressed .
29 ‘ There are certain eternal values which can not be put to referendum , ’ he announced .
30 Although some differences appear to stem more or less directly from inequalities in wealth and power , others appear to be associated with attitudes and values which can not be related directly to such inequalities ; an example is the preference of British working-class mothers for bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding their babies .
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