Example sentences of "[that] can never [be] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |