Example sentences of "not [indef pn] which [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This increased variability is not one which can be handled bureaucratically , claim Sorge et al. , and they have the weight of organisation theory on their side : it implies flexibility , autonomy , and high skill at the operator level . |
| 2 | By its nature , this area — in common with management performance — is not one which can be analysed by the Cartesian methods of economists . |
| 3 | After his return he made a statement to the UK House of Commons on Oct. 24 , warning that the decision on the use of force was " not one which can be indefinitely shirked " if sanctions were proving ineffectual . |
| 4 | While this issue is as yet undecided , it is certainly not one which should be forgotten . |
| 5 | Keith Evans ' charge that some American school media centres actually undermined the morale of teachers ( a charge he did not , incidentally , document ) was not one which could be levelled at centres on the Madeley and Codsall model , and their influence was such that many examples existed , at least for periods of time . |
| 6 | Holmes agreed that it was in ‘ the homes of the children ’ that ‘ the source of the trouble so often lies ’ and concluded that ‘ the problem of the dirty school child is not one which could be solved by any enquiry into the School Medical Service ’ . |
| 7 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 8 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 9 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 10 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 11 | This is not something which can be left to governments or industry ; each one of us must be aware of our own actions — what products we use , how we treat the earth and so on . |
| 12 | It is certainly not something which can be simply removed . |
| 13 | Moreover , industrial structure is not something which can be resolved merely by general debate over a general checklist of factors . |