Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However safe the processes of childbirth become , an aim that we would all agree upon , I think , its course can never be determined with absolute certainty . |
| 2 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 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 | ‘ When the conflict is bitter , think of the time when you were not your own masters , how its bitterness can never be forgotten ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But our relationship can never be a permanent one . |
| 7 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |