Example sentences of "it can never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowance must always be made for wind strength and the possibility of strong sink , since it can never be known beforehand whether there will be lift or sink on the way back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached ( unless somebody dredges up a ‘ living fossil ’ from the depths of the ocean ) — there are only varying degrees of probability . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 6 | ‘ It can never be satisfactory for a child to be educated in a school in which the standard of work is above his powers , or the curriculum not suited to his particular aptitudes . ’ |
| 7 | It can never be utterly erased by our preoccupation with the self and our ignorance . |
| 8 | It can never be so mainly because engineering almost invariably involves compromise ( and people ! ) . |
| 9 | For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise . |
| 10 | X-ray appearances and function are now both markedly improved despite the fact that it is generally believed that once joint cartilage ( the substance lining the joint space ) has been destroyed it can never be regenerated . |
| 11 | It can never be win:win if the suggested solution never takes place . |
| 12 | This is the most elementary method , which may serve in most modern books , but it can never be relied on with earlier examples . |
| 13 | Yet we are also agreed that it can never be complete in itself . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it can never be . |
| 15 | Even in a large population , very few individuals may be free of any deleterious mutations ; if this fittest class fails to leave descendents , it can never be recovered , and the mean fitness of the population will decline irreversibly , in a process known as ‘ Muller 's ratchet ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus the very concept of totalization , distinguished from totality , must always be refused its prospective closure , for if ‘ History continually effects totalisation of totalisations ’ ( I , 15 ) it must necessarily also mean that by definition it can never be absolutely totalized . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The trouble with enforcement , says Manne , is that it can never be perfect , since perfect enforcement would require unacceptable policing levels . |
| 20 | That is to say , the spin is either " up " or " down " with respect to that direction and it can never be a bit " sideways ' . |
| 21 | The use of the procedure is free and the bill can only be lowered ; it can never be increased . |
| 22 | While it can never be legitimately said of a theory that it is true , it can hopefully be said that it is the best available , that it is better than anything that has come before . |
| 23 | It can never be said of a theory that it is true , however well it has withstood rigorous tests , but it can hopefully be said that a current theory is superior to its predecessors in the sense that it is able to withstand tests that falsified those predecessors . |
| 24 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
| 25 | The position with syntax is however different , since it can never be guaranteed that a sufficient quantity of tokens of a given type of construction will ever appear in a piece of spontaneous discourse . |
| 26 | So it can never be used against me . ’ |
| 27 | It can never be bridged . |
| 28 | For social scientists trained in empirical inquiry this means that the whole theory is invalid because it can never be invalidated by exposing it to analysis in the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 29 | The judiciary can be encouraged , exhorted , informed , reasoned with , but it can never be instructed . |
| 30 | 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 . |