Example sentences of "that can never [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brings a feeling of emptiness that can never be filled and leaves us with a hunger for more . |
| 2 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 3 | The ‘ gaze ’ for Lacan relates to this fictitious place that can never be taken up by any human being . |
| 4 | It is a story that can never be told in full . |
| 5 | The legacy of a suicidal race that can never be forgotten , |
| 6 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 7 | You see , on programmes like Crime Watch U K , where erm they 've got these Aladdin 's caves on all these stolen items that can never be returned to their owners , it 's very , very difficult to sort of mark silverware and things like that without devaluing it ? |
| 8 | Orkney will ride Old Applejack , a 12year-old chestnut which is trained by Howard Johnson at Crook and is the sort of outsider that can never be discounted at Aintree . |
| 9 | But we were n't going foreign ; instead we turned course southwards to a queer featureless world , flat and muddy , with a shifting landscape that can never be trusted ( the water is either too shallow or too deep ) . |