Example sentences of "[pers pn] can never [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She can never be as pretty as our mother , ’ Fergal said . |
| 2 | It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it . |
| 3 | It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it . |
| 4 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 5 | ‘ So you see you can never be too careful . |
| 6 | You can never be too careful these days . |
| 7 | Now cross-examinations can not be prepared , because you can never be quite sure what the other side 's witnesses are going to say until they are actually in the box . |
| 8 | You can never be quite sure actually ! |
| 9 | Whatever happens now , my children , we can never be again as we were . |
| 10 | We can never be this good again . ’ |
| 11 | It instead designates the imagined field from where we can never be fully seen . |
| 12 | Until we relearn what we once knew , she maintains , we can never be truly healthy . |
| 13 | It also means that if difference in its sense of non-identity sets up the possibility of history , then difference in its sense of delay means also that it can never be finally concluded , for such deferral will always inhibit closure . |
| 14 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 15 | It can never be utterly erased by our preoccupation with the self and our ignorance . |
| 16 | While it can never be legitimately said of a theory that it is true , it can hopefully be said that it is the best available , that it is better than anything that has come before . |
| 17 | Thus the very concept of totalization , distinguished from totality , must always be refused its prospective closure , for if ‘ History continually effects totalisation of totalisations ’ ( I , 15 ) it must necessarily also mean that by definition it can never be absolutely totalized . |
| 18 | It can never be so mainly because engineering almost invariably involves compromise ( and people ! ) . |