Example sentences of "they can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 2 | People reveal themselves in their actions , but they can never be reduced to them . |
| 3 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 4 | Often political and economic policies are unclear to educationists , sometimes they may be in the hands of tyrants , not infrequently they conflict , but they can never be ignored . |
| 5 | Trapped in a cruel flesh joke , desire burns holes so deep they can never be repaired . |
| 6 | Homicide rates are interesting in themselves , but they can never be explained simply in terms of cultural definitions or psychological dispositions . |
| 7 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 8 | Sometimes these foals bought at sales and markets are so traumatized by their experience that they can never be handled . |
| 9 | And every evening , when Frith has done his day 's work and lies calm and easy in the red sky , El-ahrairah and his children and his children 's children come out of their holes and feed and play in his sight , for they are his friends and he has promised them that they can never be destroyed . " |
| 10 | Theories can be conclusively falsified in the light of suitable evidence , whereas they can never be established as true or even probably true whatever the evidence . |
| 11 | Hundreds of these survive ; and though they can never be a substitute for the originals , and raise very difficult problems of reliability , the best are beautiful and many are of real value to the art historian . |
| 12 | A place they can never be disturbed … |
| 13 | First , though heads are indeed crucial to the character of a school and the quality of the education it provides , they can never be held entirely to blame if these prove unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | A quietly cultivated , top-of-the-head English don , incurably in the grip of the Oxford Disease — that tragic malady which deludes its victims into believing they can never be wrong in any matter of knowledge or opinion . |
| 15 | He advised them to keep in touch with their children , because they can never be sure what 's happening beneath the surface . |