Example sentences of "and can never [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 2 | The detective was philosophical : time , in this world at least , only flows in one direction and can never be summoned back . |
| 3 | He has good fingers and can never be accused of interpretative posturing ; but his phrasing can be unimaginative , his passagework frequently sounds étude - like , and his feeling for dramatic ebb and flow is rarely in evidence . |
| 4 | And whereas a womb that has been occupied by a Future Buddha is like the shrine of a temple , and can never be occupied or used again , therefore it was that the mother of the Future Buddha died when he was seven days old , and was reborn in the Tusita heaven . |
| 5 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |