Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | She spoke great good sense to Mr Ash , whose poetry I can not like , though she professed to like it greatly , which naturally flattered him . |
| 3 | But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife . |
| 4 | The physicist tends to be unfavourably disposed toward systems whose beginning he can not understand , and this attitude accounts for part of the antipathy towards the concept of white holes . |
| 5 | I should visit Alida , who is now also alone , and Dorothea , for she has her friend whose name I can not remember , and that is yet another person for me to talk to , make friends with . |
| 6 | He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) . |
| 7 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 8 | Mrs J , whose identity we can not reveal for legal reasons , was a councillor in NHS management . |
| 9 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |