Example sentences of "[pron] can ever [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I can ever be friends with her again . ’ |
| 2 | The normal definition , that tasks will be executed at Community level only if they can not be satisfactorily dealt with at national level , begs the most important questions which can ever be asked in a democratic system : who decides ? how ? what for ? |
| 3 | Oh ! who can ever be tired of Bath ? . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's only one place where we can ever be safe , and that 's where we belong , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Yet no one can ever be lonely on The Canadian . |
| 6 | No one can ever be explicit about his own value system because he is inside it . |
| 7 | This includes Schenk , despite her stated belief in the essentially ironic character of wisdom literature ; a belief which seems to imply that the best lesson one can ever be taught is to be cynical ( which might , sadly , be true ) . |
| 8 | His most significant work , The Critique of Pure Reason , sets out the limits to thought insofar as they can ever be set from the perspective of people who are subject to those limits themselves . |
| 9 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 10 | ‘ I have known such a life … the days seemed to be longer , the air sweeter than it can ever be in England … |
| 11 | This book will not provide a definitive study of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots ; such a study lies far in the future , if it can ever be achieved at all . |
| 12 | But if this is so , not only is the case against holism once more put in doubt , the case for supposing that it can ever be established in such an a priori fashion is threatened at the same time . |