Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common that learned attitudes and behaviour patterns may never be questioned by the grown-up child . |
| 2 | In a traditional ‘ non-contact ’ competition without padding or restrictions , save that the opponents must never actually touch , each bout lasts roughly three minutes and is overseen by three judges whose job it is to study the accuracy and intended force of each blow . |
| 3 | Employers should never advise employees to sell their properties and leave no stake in the UK housing market . |
| 4 | Lecture notes should never consist of many words , for the presence of such a mass of words will make the notes difficult to assimilate and understand at a later stage . |
| 5 | Thus associative adjectives should never admit an intensifying adverb . |
| 6 | He said since the incident new instructions insisted that loads must never be left unsupported , supports must be put in place to stop the tube falling and a wider slot in the pipe was now used making the operation easier , quicker and safer . |
| 7 | Magic of the Cup PEOPLE in glass houses should never , of course , throw stones . |
| 8 | Such interactions must never be other than supportive ; yet they must also carry as much potency as possible for moving children 's learning forward . |
| 9 | Whether the party in office has been Conservative or Labour , the first consideration has been that Ulster policies must never injure electoral prospects . |
| 10 | But unless some county-ground shops alter their stance this season , the majority of cricket-lovers may never get the opportunity to receive a delivery from Johnny Miller and Co . |
| 11 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 12 | For this reason , roles may never be totally satisfying other than for short periods . |
| 13 | Thrifts should never have been subsidised and led into junk in the first place . |
| 14 | His prime concern is that clients should never be ‘ overhatted , as in over-horsed ’ . |
| 15 | In a letter to a newspaper , their solicitor Tim Robinson says that his clients should never have been prosecuted at all . |
| 16 | For ease of reference , the various steps are numbered , but the divisions between the steps should never be thought of as hard and fast . |
| 17 | In this sense a set of Christian guidelines must never be interpreted as an attempt to legislate the Gospel . |
| 18 | Terminals must never be removed by pulling on the wires , and loaded pods should never be left hanging outside the detector as the soldered terminal joints may break under the weight . |
| 19 | It is very important that teenagers should never feel rejected by their parents , either because the parents really have given up on them or else because they treat them with coldness and apparent disapproval or dislike . |
| 20 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |
| 21 | The sound in " key " is said further forward than that in " car " , but the difference is not contrastive , i.e. the words could never mean anything else if you should happen to use the " wrong k " . |
| 22 | Quakers had long distinguished between the policeman and the soldier , and the suppression of disorder among heathens was seen as legitimate in a way that prosecuting war between civilized Christian peoples could never be . |
| 23 | They have turned towards an inner contact with Christ based upon faith which has sought to bypass the historical research that sought to determine , with an accuracy previous centuries could never manage , the nature of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 24 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 25 | The owner said that the reference to a non-legal expert was inappropriate to a dispute about legal liability , and that despite the express words in the disputes clause in the contract , the parties could never have intended it . |
| 26 | As a more extreme example may be quoted the case of a south-easterly gale in the Straits of Dover : however long the gale blew the waves could never exceed a certain height determined by the distance across the Straits . |
| 27 | Among these , there is much for which it is likely that performances could never have been contemplated by whatever scratch ensembles could furtively be gathered at clandestine celebrations held in recusant households ; these must have been composed simply as an act of faith . |
| 28 | The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match . |
| 29 | In the USA , domestic airlines choose hubs for their operations at smalltown airports whose natural characteristics would never justify the high level of air transport now available to them . |
| 30 | Ferguson : The Leeds fans would never give him a chance , plus he is crap . |