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

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1 In this way change is seen as a developing social process the repercussions of which can not be completely forecast .
2 The survey will be begun to be made , as soon as 500 copies are subscribed for , and it is eagerly requested that such as wish to become subscribers , will be as early as possible in signifying their names , that the proposer may embrace the opportunity of surveying all the streets this summer , which can not be conveniently done after 7 o'clock in the morning , on account of the interruption of carriage .
3 It presents , quite objectively , a vast amount of data drawn from official Government sources and elsewhere which can not be feasibly challenged by Mr Fallon or anyone else .
4 These songs and poetry have helped the group maintain their spirit of unity , provides some light relief to let off some steam , and helped to convey the message of what they have done and are continuing to do to other community groups in a way which can not be simply related in written words and figures .
5 The deformations of the heads of the two right-hand figures are infinitely more radical and extreme and again evoke analogies with a wide range of tribal art which can not be simply fortuitous .
6 Something present in a flash , intuitively seen to be necessary , which can not be otherwise . ’
7 In this way badly needed public resources , which can not be easily paid for , could be met by those corporations whose financial reserves are sufficient for a proportion to be ploughed back into the community from which they were originally largely reaped .
8 For them , the social order is structured and not composed of discrete and shifting groups : there are real and deep inequalities between classes which can not be easily eliminated or resolved by recourse to a competition , by groups or individuals , for political power .
9 Arabic uses a number of devices which can not be easily represented in back-translation .
10 AD 180 , to coincide with the account of an invasion of northern Britain by the historian Cassius Dio ; the wholesale acceptance of this view , though , causes some strains in interpretation which can not be easily reconciled , chief among them being the implication that the damaged forts and other frontier works were left in a state of disrepair for the best part of 25 years , an unbelievable occurrence in Roman military affairs of the period .
11 The following response : ‘ Topics which can not be adequately covered by the Council 's training policy ’ was rare .
12 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 .
13 Chaucer 's art of ambiguity in presenting his Canterbury pilgrims balances the levels at which they are bonded by the literal and figurative goals of their journey and stereotyped by their social functions , with an awareness of an individual reality which can not be adequately contained by either .
14 It is fairly safe to eat game and animals which can not be intensively reared .
15 Modern prehistorians do not any more attach such importance to the introduction of pottery , which can not be clearly correlated with such things as agriculture .
16 The second type ( 2b ) consists of lexical sets , the membership of which can not be reliably predicted on phonological grounds alone , and this type is additional to the types of variable that were studied by Labov ( 1966 ) in New York City ( these were types 1 and 2a ) .
17 For to say that ‘ God exists ’ is to make a metaphysical utterance which can not be either true or false .
18 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 .
19 The very essence of the word ‘ belief ’ is that it is a conclusion based upon thought and experience but one which can not be irrefutably proved .
20 A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices .
21 This is a very special result , which can not be generally true .
22 In the last resort , self-awareness requires the personal acceptance that responsibility for doing something about feelings or circumstances is a personal one , which can not be effectively decided by other people .
23 Or are they explicable , perhaps , in terms of certain behavioural-dispositional , or functional , or some similar properties which can not be strictly categorised either as " physical " or " mental " , but belong rather in a class of their own ?
24 A common mistake is to compare two figures which can not be logically linked .
25 If ideals or values are essentially statements of faith which can not be logically sustained then much of our examination will be concerned with persuasion rather than with facts in themselves .
26 When , for example , God is thought of as like light , the metaphor is meant to bring into play all kinds of overtones and ideas which can help the user to a greater understanding of the word God : light shares some characteristics which can be applied to God — but ones which can not be neatly packaged up in literal words .
27 This too is a doom which must be faced , to know that which only few can know , and which can not be further explained . ’
28 Even the statement that " obviously any polynomial in x with integer coefficients must be expressible ( by using a " degree " argument ) as a product of polynomials which can not be further decomposed " was of little value to him unless it be accompanied by a method which in each instance would supply the indecomposable factors .
29 indicating that the morpheme is a singular noun which can not be further inflected .
30 However , there are certain peripheral types of semantic constituent which can not be directly subjected to the test .
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