Example sentences of "[noun sg] might never " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem , in the months that followed , to have lived with a new intensity , half-knowing that their shared joy in creativity and friendship might never be repeated . |
| 2 | The courts could not create a ‘ surrogate right of appeal ’ by extending the High Court 's supervisory role through judicial review proceedings , even though it meant a trial might never take place . |
| 3 | The National Enterprise Board might never have come anywhere near what was required , but the principle was right : England needs a development agency or agencies with a wide range of social , economic and physical powers that are able to intervene in more depressed localities through corporate programmes emanating from the full range of public- and private-sector organizations . |
| 4 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |
| 5 | The public and Parliament might never have known about the payment , even though Premier John Major has pledged a new age of open Government , Labour MPs angrily pointed out . |
| 6 | Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder , RAF commander in Egypt , wrote that ‘ the cloven hoof of Pan American [ is ] now well to the fore ’ , and called BOAC 's attitude ‘ hopelessly defeatist ’ , Pan American was making inroads in Africa and the Middle East that BOAC might never be able to match . |
| 7 | But the success story might never have happened if the entrepreneur with the idea , Ivan , had taken the advice of his bank . |
| 8 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 9 | And the buttonhole might never have become his trademark had he not been accused of being ostentatious . |
| 10 | Nathan Holland on the other hand was a faithful friend , and but for him Paul 's last work might never have found its way into print . |
| 11 | If she had not done so , her work might never have been discovered by American readers . |
| 12 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 13 | And GUIs might never have happened , for all the impact that Windows or the Apple Mac have had on the dBase desktop . |
| 14 | With the introduction of the Barcode Battler , Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again . |
| 15 | Alternatively it would be unfair if the only measure of damages was the indemnity basis — because the Purchaser might never be able to recover its goodwill payment . |
| 16 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 17 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 18 | Last night might never have happened . |
| 19 | Of course , almost always the two immediately annihilate each other , so the event might never have happened , but it is possible that on occasion , for one reason or another , the two are separated so swiftly that annihilation does not occur . |
| 20 | Why was such a dangerous practice allowed to continue with the chance that the offender might never have been caught ? |
| 21 | She sometimes felt that were Scott not sitting at the studio news desk , face made up and hair sprayed , ready to roll and clearly in control — why , then the news might never happen . |
| 22 | Asterix might never have been born but for a chance meeting in 1951 with another cartoonist , Rene Goscinny , at the Paris offices of a Belgian newspaper syndicate . |
| 23 | Mick is convinced that if there had been more staff available the attack might never have happened . |
| 24 | Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it . |
| 25 | The months of illness might never have been . |
| 26 | He manufactured stories about the cannibalistic Caribs he never met : without the Admiral 's inventive mind , Shakespeare 's audience might never have encountered Caliban on Prospero 's island . |
| 27 | Perhaps when she knew every last detail of their affair she could blank it all out and start all over again … and the dawn might never come ! |
| 28 | THE final death toll from the El Al disaster might never be known . |
| 29 | The number might never end , and Susan would be caught for ever . |
| 30 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |