Example sentences of "[noun sg] who can not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So you have a frustrated male who can not understand why it is apparently being given the ‘ come-on ’ and who not surprisingly reacts with hostility when spawning is not forthcoming .
2 Yet we must also simply learn to accept our status as mere fragments of total nature who can not help sometimes being overcome by forces we can not control , whether of a physical or of a psychological nature , or by the assaults of irrational men .
3 The patient who can not sit up may start by washing in bed , with the nurse guiding him , so that he does not risk over-balancing and falling .
4 Such an achievement is the exact contrary of the plight of the captive chimpanzee who can not discover how to copulate .
5 The Star and the Daily Mail continued the search for female associates of The Fox with the headlines THE SAD MOTHER HE BETRAYED and THE MOTHER WHO CAN NOT BELIEVE respectively .
6 A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient .
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