Example sentences of "something that can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 2 | The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known . |
| 3 | The right book becomes something passionately possessed ( ‘ mine ! ’ ) , something that can not be read too often , the text being treated with an almost academic concern for accuracy . |
| 4 | Vincent is hiding something that can not stand the light . ’ |
| 5 | It is something that can not be explained away . |
| 6 | If that contact is broken , the words and events become a sort of empty recitation , an alienated recounting of something that can not proclaim its real significance . |
| 7 | This is something that can not be taken for granted , as with the best will in the World , even the most expert goldfish keeper will suffer equipment failures etc. in his or her absence which can , during hot weather for example , lead to loss of fish or triggering off disease . |
| 8 | It is a longing for something that can not happen . |
| 9 | However , what we surely have on the objector 's view is precisely that the smell of the candles was something that can not possibly be explained . |
| 10 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 11 | This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors . |
| 12 | This allows a large number of variations in style to be incorporated into a single page , something that can not be achieved with digitised fonts as these , by definition , are of a fixed size and style . |
| 13 | The P P G seven has a very clear theme about supporting rural diversification , it is positively worded P P G. I think the restrictive nature of the existing policy and the district 's support for that is something that can not run forward in the structure plan and be consistent with national policy . |