Example sentences of "can [adv] entirely [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 2 | States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence . |
| 3 | You can not entirely make light of such demonstrations . |
| 4 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 5 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 6 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 7 | While this agreement is not altogether surprising — feminists can not entirely avoid fighting on already established ground , and the cultural importance of sex difference is deeply entrenched — its consequences have sometimes been regrettable . |
| 8 | If you retain real career ambitions , this is a harsh truth which you can not entirely ignore , even if in the end you decide that you must not abandon your legal rights of redress . |
| 9 | This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them . |
| 10 | The ceremonies and festivities attending the coronation of French kings at Reims did much to enhance the popularity and reputation of the wines of Champagne — though they can not entirely have pleased the populace of Reims , who had to meet the expense of such occasions . |
| 11 | Yet there is a danger here in over-gilding the memory of Attlee 's Whitehall — a danger that even familiarity with the formerly secret record of his government can not entirely eradicate . |
| 12 | Indeed , it can sometimes be used as a board substitute but can not entirely replace it . |
| 13 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 14 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 15 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
| 16 | You can never entirely eliminate human error and oversight , but this gimmick of marking replies to searches , etc , minimises the possibility of your forgetting to pass on to your client vital information that might give time to consider whether or not to proceed with the purchase , such as the fact that redevelopment of the area within the next ten years is contemplated . |
| 17 | Most will tell you that you can never entirely trust a ‘ tame ’ leopard and some have the scars to prove it . |
| 18 | But she can never entirely master a human soul — not unless you consent to it ! |