Example sentences of "that it can never [be] " in BNC.

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1 In the Freudian view of the development of the little girl , the clitoris is the centre of her infantile pleasure , until she realizes that it can never be a penis and must transfer her sexual centre to her vagina .
2 But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents .
3 Yet we are also agreed that it can never be complete in itself .
4 There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs .
5 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 .
6 The trouble with enforcement , says Manne , is that it can never be perfect , since perfect enforcement would require unacceptable policing levels .
7 To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable .
8 What makes Austen 's work interesting is that it can never be reduced entirely to simple analytical frameworks .
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