Example sentences of "[conj] can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So which sex is it that burns with desire for an encounter that can never be ? ’ |
| 2 | Experience is necessarily an act of relating in a relationship that can never be free of paradox . |
| 3 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 4 | But we were n't going foreign ; instead we turned course southwards to a queer featureless world , flat and muddy , with a shifting landscape that can never be trusted ( the water is either too shallow or too deep ) . |
| 5 | It is a story that can never be told in full . |
| 6 | This brings a feeling of emptiness that can never be filled and leaves us with a hunger for more . |
| 7 | It is a problem that can never be finally resolved . |
| 8 | If Iraq is in the process of modernisation , then it is an alien kind of modernity that can never be acceptable to the civilised world . |
| 9 | The ‘ gaze ’ for Lacan relates to this fictitious place that can never be taken up by any human being . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that because Rolle does not make use of Richard of St Victor 's fourth stage , insatiabilis the love that can never be satisfied because of the inexhaustible nature of God , he did not in fact enter so profound a mystical experience as others . |
| 11 | Orkney will ride Old Applejack , a 12year-old chestnut which is trained by Howard Johnson at Crook and is the sort of outsider that can never be discounted at Aintree . |
| 12 | The legacy of a suicidal race that can never be forgotten , |
| 13 | You see , on programmes like Crime Watch U K , where erm they 've got these Aladdin 's caves on all these stolen items that can never be returned to their owners , it 's very , very difficult to sort of mark silverware and things like that without devaluing it ? |
| 14 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 15 | Historically and theologically , of course , it is not and can never be . |
| 16 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 17 | Schools are not , and can never be , autonomous . |
| 18 | Sadly , many sufferers believe that there is no cure and can never be one . |
| 19 | And whereas a womb that has been occupied by a Future Buddha is like the shrine of a temple , and can never be occupied or used again , therefore it was that the mother of the Future Buddha died when he was seven days old , and was reborn in the Tusita heaven . |
| 20 | He has good fingers and can never be accused of interpretative posturing ; but his phrasing can be unimaginative , his passagework frequently sounds étude - like , and his feeling for dramatic ebb and flow is rarely in evidence . |
| 21 | Marxists influenced by Gramsci 's analysis have also often asserted the impact of dominant ideas , but , in their view , acquiescence has been always problematic ; it has to be worked for through the establishment of hegemony and can never be simply taken for granted . |
| 22 | A terrestrial plant will always be stunted in growth and assimilation and can never be a match for a true aquatic plant . |
| 23 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |
| 24 | The detective was philosophical : time , in this world at least , only flows in one direction and can never be summoned back . |
| 25 | ‘ Now you know … you must know , or you would not have spoken to him so , the reason I am not your wife … and can never be so , Benedict . ’ |
| 26 | The NI has now established itself — but it is not , and can never be , part of the Establishment . " |
| 27 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 28 | Federalism in its German form betrays a highly teleological view of politics , and its theorists arrogate to themselves assumptions and imperatives which are at best matters for the Church , but can never be pronounced on by politicians . |
| 29 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |
| 30 | Better choices can usually be seen but can never be made retrospectively . |