Example sentences of "can never [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |
| 2 | The order to create wealth can never justify permanent damage to the balance of nature . |
| 3 | In practice this process may be considered broken , for not only will it never interact with the outside world , but what is worse the environment can never detect this fact . |
| 4 | ‘ Conservatism can never deliver good health . |
| 5 | Friends can never love each other 's lovers , but if our friends are happy ? |
| 6 | I ca I can never hide that fact , but certainly if they come tonight they 'll see some attractive football . |
| 7 | Well the league 's the important thing , I c I can never hide that fact , but certainly if they come tonight they 'll see some attractive football . |
| 8 | At the moment , it does n't seem to be working and it may be that we can never return this owl to the wild — it certainly would n't survive as it is . |
| 9 | Well you can never anticipate any breach of security , I mean that 's why you have security in the first place , in order to prevent things from happening . |
| 10 | Management is about dealing with uncertainty , you can never obtain perfect information . |
| 11 | If the rays of light that form the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , can never approach each other , the area of the event horizon might stay the same or increase with time but it could never decrease — because that would mean that at least some of the rays of light in the boundary would have to be approaching each other . |
| 12 | The subject as a whole is a mystery for the reason which we touched on earlier in the context of ESP : we can never share another person 's experiences . |
| 13 | Thus a primary perceptive function can be supported by an auxiliary judging process and vice versa , but thinking and feeling can never support each other , nor can sensation and intuition . |
| 14 | Before buying an Akita you can never have enough advice from as many sources as possible . |
| 15 | I am not suggesting that you can never have another cup of coffee or tea but that here , as in many other areas of life , moderation is the best policy . |
| 16 | Can older people exert their corporate purchasing power in this fashion , or do their tastes vary to such an extent that they can never have this kind of combined approach ? |
| 17 | Insisting that religious faith must be absolutely certain and secure , it decides that history can never provide such security and thereby loses interest in history altogether . |
| 18 | M : She can never find that skirt . |
| 19 | you can never find any going , can you ? |
| 20 | They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) . |
| 21 | I can never see much colour in it , though it looks slightly off-white . |
| 22 | Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text . |
| 23 | Oh you can never mind this country 's never won a major war on its own and never will do |