Example sentences of "can be no " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be no doubt that the climate of Japan imposed on her artists a different attitude towards art problems . |
| 2 | For example , Chadwick states : ‘ There can be no simple category defined as ‘ feminist art history ’ , since the effect of new ideas is that ‘ much recent scholarly writing has shifted attention from the categories ‘ art ’ and ‘ artist ’ to broader issues concerning ideologies of gender , sexuality , and power ’ . |
| 3 | There can be no claim that this is what Roth really thinks : the affidavit that might have been contained in The Facts has been withheld . |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that he had an ear for what such people have to say for themselves . |
| 5 | The shortest stories in Greyhound for Breakfast owe a lot to Kafka 's briefer parables , though they are apt to be more difficult to understand ; and there can be no doubt that Beckett 's solipsistic tramps have left an impression on the earlier writings . |
| 6 | Also , there can be no doubt that the South would intervene in the North on behalf of the catholic — nationalist minority if Britain withdrew and civil war broke out . |
| 7 | From the point of view of the issue of law , there can be no doubt as to the influence both of the constitution of 1937 in the period following its enactment and of the influence of Roman catholic teaching on legislation prior to that date . |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 9 | There can be no question that the bishops are not in any way aware of this arrogation , as it is mediated in consciousness by their belief in , and conceptualization of , a static natural law which is accessible , even if with difficulty , to the conscience of everyman ; which same natural law no one should be allowed to violate , even if in error , when that law , if broken , is seen to threaten the very moral fabric of society . |
| 10 | There can be no summation for him because there is nothing there to sum up . |
| 11 | There can be no title , he wrote , because there is no object . |
| 12 | It can be no accident that the opinion of the police officer is now sought on matters which once would have remained the province of the archbishop and his clergy . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 15 | Professor Pacey referred to Layton as ‘ a poet of revolutionary individualism , ’ and there can be no doubt that that individualism was a common tie , and not merely religiously but in every way . |
| 16 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 17 | Without cognisant acts there can be no beliefs about phenomenology : no phenomenology without self-ascription , and no self-ascription without mental actions . |
| 18 | ( This implies of course that consciousness in animals is a hypothesis for which there can be no evidence at all unless we resort to anthropomorphism , which we usually do . ) |
| 19 | Both laws are derived from observations and there can be no doubt about their empirical credentials . |
| 20 | There can be no other climb at this standard which gives such a big-wall feel . |
| 21 | At yet another , we will never get there since a stream of tendency has been caught and held in new-visioned ( as opposed to far-sighted ) iconic stasis , and there can be no movement on out of the world we live in into the book we read . |
| 22 | However much some people at Cambridge disapproved of him , there can be no doubt of Heath 's high professional competence in the understanding of structuralism and poststructuralism . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 24 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 26 | Furthermore , there can be no absolute certainty that a candidate 's thesis will pass in the end , however carefully the examiners are selected . |
| 27 | At this point I shall return to Hirsch , who argues that there can be no intrinsic understanding of literature , only a variety of understandings : ‘ Aesthetic categories are intrinsic to aesthetic inquiries , but not to the nature of literary work . |
| 28 | The variation between English-language speakers about what syllables , in effect what vowels , they treat as long or short , is so great that there can be no question of imposing on English verse a quantitative metre such as was used for ancient Latin ( doubtless with some strain for those who spoke classical Latin with dialectal variations as to quantity ) . |
| 29 | For the few considered politically reliable enough to get a closer look , there can be no mistake . |
| 30 | There can be no Christian blueprint for the ‘ final ’ form of society , since it is part of its perception of the human condition that all forms of society are provisional , reflecting human sinfulness , though not always to an equal degree . |