Example sentences of "can never [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the first place we can never forget the main objective in establishing News on Sunday was not to make money , ’ the Liverpool comrades continued , adding the muddled rider : ‘ It would be lovely to ignore money , but we ca n't . ’ |
| 2 | No , you can never pass the other side . |
| 3 | Within the Lakatos account , then , one can never make the unqualified claim that one research programme is ‘ better ’ than a rival . |
| 4 | Peter Senior , the technical director of Delta Biotechnology , stresses that haemoglobin can never do the same job as donated blood transfused into patients . |
| 5 | You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions . |
| 6 | They can never realize the parental aspiration other than in a superficial way , and they are left not only with the envy of the sex they were meant to be , but also unable to enjoy the sex which they are and the advantages which pertain to it . |
| 7 | In his discussion of accidents of personality Plekhanov offers no defence of his claim that these can never outweigh the causal influence of the mode of production and resulting social relations . |
| 8 | ‘ I argue that unless such a ship is built , the Yek can never cross the Great Sea or circumnavigate the world , ’ Alexei responded . |
| 9 | You can never have the final word . |
| 10 | You can never have the final word . |
| 11 | It can never happen the other way round . |
| 12 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 13 | The only thing I dislike it for , you can never find the same stall if you 've got to take anything back . |
| 14 | In practice however awareness is unequal , variable , uncertain , with impassable limits even in the case of self-knowledge , so that we can never take the full measure of our reactions from all viewpoints ; like the child wondering whether to risk another helping at dinner , we require an ‘ ought ’ whenever we are losing sight of the reaction at an unsustainable height of awareness . |
| 15 | The ‘ two ’ refers to the number of strands wound together and the thirty is something to do with the length — I can never remember the exact definition of this bit . |
| 16 | They can be of great service in transmitting the Faith , even though they can never replace the personal witness which is essential to the proclamation of the full truth and value of the Christian message . |
| 17 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 18 | ‘ I can never hear the damned thing without wanting a cardiogram . ’ |
| 19 | It can never become the vocal majority . |
| 20 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |