Example sentences of "it can never be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most elementary method , which may serve in most modern books , but it can never be relied on with earlier examples . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The judiciary can be encouraged , exhorted , informed , reasoned with , but it can never be instructed . |
| 4 | The use of the procedure is free and the bill can only be lowered ; it can never be increased . |
| 5 | In reality it can never be achieved . |
| 6 | It can never be bridged . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What makes Austen 's work interesting is that it can never be reduced entirely to simple analytical frameworks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So it can never be used against me . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |