Example sentences of "[Wh det] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | First of all , health and health care are seen as political , social and ideological issues which can not be understood or tackled in isolation on a medical or technical basis . |
| 32 | The poetic work too should be viewed as a ‘ functional structure ’ ( p.46 ) , the different elements of which can not be understood except in their connections with the whole . |
| 33 | Which can not be born |
| 34 | I think there are some gulfs which can not be bridged . |
| 35 | On waters which can not be baited from a boat , and where swims are too distant to be fed by catapult , the use of a swimfeeder to distribute loose feed around the hookbait is often a deadly method . |
| 36 | It is , in the first instance , a metaphor for that portion of the sense of worthlessness which can not be denied , whatever the anorexic 's outward behaviour is saying to the contrary . |
| 37 | There is a sense of deep admiration for the Soviet people and Soviet state here which can not be denied , an admiration echoing personal experience . |
| 38 | The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) . |
| 39 | This remark emphasizes again the point previously made that moral considerations , which can not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense , are involved in situations of moral dilemma or in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 40 | The first part of this is a more general political question which can not be covered fully in an economics text . |
| 41 | An anonymous memorandum sent to Rome just after his death accused him of storing up great wealth and even of having profited from the neglect of the episcopal estates , accusations which can not be substantiated but which may not have been complete fabrications . |
| 42 | There are certain words which can not be pronounced using the GPC route , however , and these are words with irregular grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences . |
| 43 | Equally obviously , for any degree of smallness or crudeness of ancestral air-catching surfaces , there must be some distance , however short , which can be jumped with the flap and which can not be jumped without the flap . |
| 44 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 45 | attempt to understand and explain immediate daily experience , while the real reasons for both the socio-economic decline and New Commonwealth immigration are to be found in much more abstract and long-standing social and economic processes which can not be grasped in terms of daily experience . |
| 46 | The implicit recognition of this in their work is obscured by the distinction they make between ‘ direct experience ’ and more ‘ abstract ’ ‘ underlying ’ causes which can not be grasped at the level of immediate experience . |
| 47 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | which can not be connected . |
| 50 | There is a whole range of language communication , particularly that which involves the interrelation between speaker and hearer , which can not be fitted into this conceptual view of semantics ( see 9.1–9.1.2 ) . |
| 51 | Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods . |
| 52 | This argument views culture as something accidental and static which can not be analysed . |
| 53 | Earlier yesterday , the Court of Appeal refused an application by Mr Goodwin 's employers , the publishers Morgan Grampian , to revoke the order forcing him to hand over notes containing confidential financial information concerning a company , which can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 54 | The impact of the visual world , which can not be kept out by undemocratic and dogmatic regimes , will have a tremendous effect on many communities . |
| 55 | The road will open the forest to settlers , who elsewhere have cleared forest for cattle , overhunted and introduced alcohol and diseases which can not be tolerated by forest people . |
| 56 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 58 | Conditions had been miserable — and yet , as we climbed aboard the waiting mini-bus , we shared an exhilaration peculiar to bird watchers , and which can not be explained . |
| 59 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |
| 60 | Measurements taken by American satellites have pointed to a reduction of approximately 0.35–1.00 per cent per year through the 1980s which can not be explained by variations in the solar cycle ( Bowman , 1988 ) . |