Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] who can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind members of the schemes operated by the University who can not achieve 40 years ’ pensionable/reckonable service should consider the possibility of making Additional Voluntary Contributions to improve their retirement benefits . |
| 2 | There are times , too , when the class teacher should see the school nurse , the social worker , the educational psychologist and , above all , the parent who can not wait . |
| 3 | For example , as educational research has found , the child who can not read at eight is unlikely ever to learn , and that eight is the latest age at which a child can function in school as an illiterate . |
| 4 | For example , the person who can not say ‘ no ’ to others ' requests is likely to be overwhelmed by external demands ; the person who fails to speak up for him/herself and express personal feelings and thoughts will not feel fulfilled and comfortable with his/her own identity ; the person who can communicate only in an aggressive manner may fail to develop healthy trusting relationships . |
| 5 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 6 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 7 | She said the extra places would be a lifeline to many of the families in the area who can not find local provision . |
| 8 | The butterfly spread can be reversed ( Fig. 7.1 0(b) ) to cater for the investor who can not decide on the balance of his or her expectations . |
| 9 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Of a four-handed cast , ’ wrote Bernard Levin in the Daily Mail , ‘ Mr Michael Crawford , as the brother who can not bear his sister to be touched by the world , makes a great deal out of what I suspect is not very much , conveying well his uncomprehending self-disgust . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 14 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 15 | I refer especially to the case of a constituent , a boy who can not walk , talk , feed himself or do anything for himself , and will never be any different , as a result of meningitis at the age of three . |
| 16 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 17 | Our sportsdesk can spot from a mile off a person who can not tell an in-swinger from a bouncer . |
| 18 | The reply could be ‘ A blind person is a person who can not see ’ . |
| 19 | It may , in the case of a person who can not write , be merely a mark . |
| 20 | Or a man who can not meet his bills ? |
| 21 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 22 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 23 | Mr Tholen is a man who can not resist a challenge and when , just before his 50th birthday , he was told he was too old to learn anything new , he set out to prove that theory wrong by learning to fly . |
| 24 | Both discussed Kohlberg 's moral dilemma of a man who can not afford the expensive medicine which may save his fatally ill wife , and who must decide whether to burgle a pharmacy to get it . |
| 25 | President Houphouet Boigny , of Ivory Coast , is on record as saying that a minister who can not enrich himself is not worth his salt . |
| 26 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 27 | At present an owl who can not fly and a rare river bird are enjoying four-star treatment at the surgery . |
| 28 | The strength of functional assessment is to point out that an elder who can not dress will require the same care , irrespective of whether this condition results from a stroke , severe arthritis , an obsessional neurosis , or a low self-esteem . |
| 29 | One must never assume that an elder who can not discuss personal desires does not need an environment in which such desires can crystallize and find expression . |
| 30 | Informally this must mean that P " is essentially the same as " Q , in that , to an observer who can not detect their internal structure , the behaviours of P and Q are indistinguishable . |