Example sentences of "can never [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not felt that the danger is a real one because one can never control the discretion of trustees . |
| 2 | Didi can never tell the difference . ’ |
| 3 | Sentencing Tucker , 29 , yesterday assistant recorder Timothy Workman said : ‘ I accept you have sincerely held views about animal rights but those views can never justify the actions you took . ’ |
| 4 | In this as in other areas the ends can never justify the means . |
| 5 | In the study of literature , quantitative methods can never achieve the primacy which they enjoy in the experimental sciences and in many branches of social studies . |
| 6 | I can never forget the girl . |
| 7 | Actually this was done in double-quick time but I can never forget the excitement and the terror of that night . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's that we can never over-emphasise the importance of being cost competitive . |
| 9 | Does it not mean that preparers of accounts and auditors can never satisfy the market 's reasonable expectations ? |
| 10 | But Paul can never stop the feeling completely . |
| 11 | ‘ We can never measure the effect we have on other people , ’ he said , although he , more than most , had a fair idea . |
| 12 | Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision . |
| 13 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I can never ring the alarm bell , ’ he thought . |
| 15 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 16 | Why is it that ‘ accidents ’ of personality or talent can never outweigh the influence of the forces of production and social relations ? |
| 17 | Unlike the anthropologist he can never have the excitement of actually directly confronting his subjects in the flesh ; and he is dealing with people who , temporally distant though they may be , are ultimately his own kith and kin . |
| 18 | Poor Brian can never have the holiday he wants . |
| 19 | Keeping to the domestic front for the moment , what this means is that the conclusions which women reach , no matter how carefully and intelligently they are worked out , can never have the status of decisions . |
| 20 | A Member of Parliament may deeply regret what he said in the heat of a debate ; but he can never have the record changed on the plea of ‘ I did n't mean to say that . ’ |
| 21 | It seems that the atheist can never disprove the existence of a God that theists admit to believing in . |
| 22 | Oh , why is it you can never find the stuff when you want it ? |
| 23 | What is the mid-point of the argument that some teachers do not want to reflect , others can never find the time for reflection and others feel it unnecessary ? |
| 24 | He can never destroy the creator , but he can still spoil and corrupt his creation . |
| 25 | But i you have , I 'm sure to go to people and not be at all surprised if some people you can never raise the enthusiasm , because that 's human nature , and you accept human nature as it is , but if you 're positive and encourage and lead without being coercive to a high degree , I think you get more responses . |
| 26 | One major problem is that you can never prove the life of an item . |
| 27 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |
| 28 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 29 | You go over the bridge and then you turn and then if you 're coming here , you go turn right again into umm d' you know I can never remember the name of the road , another road anyway you turn right . |
| 30 | Erm and the I can never remember the name of that road over there . |