Example sentences of "[noun sg] can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control . |
| 2 | In other words , a dog who continually barks and shows fear can never be regarded as a dog with high self-confidence . |
| 3 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 4 | Sir Karl Popper , whose ‘ Conjectures and Refutations ’ is crucial for understanding the recent philosophy of science , points out that the mind can never be a passive register of experience . |
| 5 | Murder can never be anything but a most serious crime , although committed in conditions of infinite variety , whereas thefts can be trivial in the extreme . |
| 6 | Hence a transferee can never be certain of obtaining an absolute title in the case of an off-market transaction . |
| 7 | We have taken steps to ensure that the circumstances that led to this tragedy can never be repeated . ’ |
| 8 | However , once we abandon the assumption that the capital stock can never be underutilized we are forced to recognize that the ‘ off stage ’ decline in aggregate demand will not only push workers off their ‘ ideal ’ labour supply function , L s : it will also push employers off their ‘ ideal ’ labour demand function , L d . |
| 9 | In June he lectured " On Poetry " at Concord Academy , in which he repeated his claim that the poet can never be a successful man . |
| 10 | A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time . |
| 11 | A rule can never be appreciated apart from the reasons on which it is founded " . |
| 12 | Like Habermas 's ‘ ideal speech situation ’ , the fact that scientific practice can never be realized is not the point . |
| 13 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 14 | Any sensible policy concerned with reducing crime — crime can never be abolished — needs three components . |
| 15 | The significance of any research can never be merely an internal matter but is very much one determined by the response and judgements of fellow researchers and a fact of research life . |
| 16 | ‘ True love and companionship can never be hired . |
| 17 | For the PROFITBOSS work can never be more important than home . |
| 18 | Such an image , unlike Paley 's comparison to a watch , makes clear the theist claim that the created universe can never be understood as self-supporting . |
| 19 | For one thing , theories about the beginning of the present phase of the Universe can never be more than theoretic ; and for another thing , there is no reason to think that the Universe , as such , can be said to have ‘ origins ’ . |
| 20 | Their amenability to the criminal law can never be the same as that of natural persons , though this has been increased by the powers conferred on judges and magistrates , by the Criminal Justice Act 1948 , to impose a fine instead of imprisonment . |
| 21 | Clearly if the substitutes are entitled to enter then the condition on the manumission can never be satisfied . |
| 22 | In other words , a compromise : management can never be wholly altruistic or spotlessly ethical , but the harm done to others can be minimised . |
| 23 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 24 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |
| 25 | This does n't mean that the majority team can never be displaced . |
| 26 | This is the logical consequence of bringing the building industry to full productivity ; otherwise , the absurd situation is reached that housing , unlike any other normal necessity of life , is something with which a substantial proportion of the population can never be provided at a decent standard without subsidy . |
| 27 | A signifier can never be fixed to a particular concept . |
| 28 | That moment and place can never be expunged from his memory . |
| 29 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 30 | A heroic moment , whose importance can never be measured , then the inexorable decline — downhill all the way from one miscalculation to another — of the Churchill premiership . |