Example sentences of "[noun pl] can never [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels .
2 Agency care is not a permanent solution and it as agency carers can never be as good as two or three permanent staff .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Because of the low incidence of the disorder such services can never be comprehensively and efficiently provided at district level .
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