Example sentences of "[noun pl] can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial considerations can never be the deciding factor in sentencing . |
| 2 | Except in the most arid and scholarly publications , your value to journalists can never be measured simply in terms of the quality of your music . |
| 3 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 4 | Growth in iron founding was not without problems although the history of many individual sites can never be written . |
| 5 | The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 6 | Cnut 's laws , which initially look such promising sources , are in reality something of a quicksand in which their compiler and his motives can never be forgotten . |
| 7 | The two have already planned a Christmas together , both fully aware the happiness of earlier years can never be recaptured . |
| 8 | Agency care is not a permanent solution and it as agency carers can never be as good as two or three permanent staff . |
| 9 | Lastly , freedom of speech is necessary since silent alternatives can never be effective alternatives . |
| 10 | Ideas can never be packaged so conveniently . |
| 11 | Montag is astonished to find that they too burn books , however they destroy only the cases which contain the words , the ideas can never be destroyed while they live on inside the people , to be written out once more to give joy after the ‘ Dark Age ’ has passed . |
| 12 | In the end it does work , but the development costs can never be recovered . |
| 13 | The expertise of specialist planning consultants can never be replaced by the generalist , particularly where complex projects such as town centre schemes and developments which may proceed to a major planning inquiry are involved . |
| 14 | Whatever happens , even if the same coalition led by the Christian Democrats and Socialists gets back into power , things can never be the same again . |
| 15 | Certain things can never be blamed on or explained in terms of witchcraft . |
| 16 | For non-Marxists , then , Marxist theories can never be disproved empirically because the theory can always be reworked or ‘ false consciousness ’ invoked to explain any apparent aberrant behaviour which appears to be inconsistent with the general logic of the objective laws of change which Marx originally formulated . |
| 17 | It follows that , contextual substitutions apart , naming symbols can never be entirely replaced by descriptive phrases , for this would mean substituting non-rigid designators for rigid ones , which might very well result in a change of truth-value of the propositions concerned . |
| 18 | Breast Cancer patients can never be certain they 've beaten the illness . |
| 19 | Unlike plosive , the release stage of affricates can never be omitted , eg which chairs contains no unexploded allophone as does bad dog . |
| 20 | She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context . |
| 21 | As Midgley makes clear , discussions of natural sex differences can never be simply a neutral issue , even if it is an empirical one , since one still has to consider what consequences should follow from the differences one has discovered . |
| 22 | Such an occurrence guarantees disaster within a configuration control system , which is why identifiers can never be removed from LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | The masses can never be expected to have a clear conception of a supreme God without investing those attributes with a projection of their own personality . |
| 24 | A stone tower remained , repaired by later comers , for forts can never be redundant in Ireland . |
| 25 | And again , over a longer time span genes will have changed by mutation or altered their effects by chromosomal recombination so that the effect they exert on traits can never be considered in isolation . |
| 26 | The relationship between parents and children can never be taken for granted . |
| 27 | It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed . |
| 28 | It also ensures that the records can never be incorrect . |
| 29 | Because of the low incidence of the disorder such services can never be comprehensively and efficiently provided at district level . |
| 30 | The claim that women can never be in positions of public responsibility because of their ‘ raging hormonal imbalances ’ is refuted . |