Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] never " in BNC.

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31 This shall never happen to you ! ’
32 People murmured that this would never have happened in Cromwell 's day , albeit secretly for fear of the authorities .
33 The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do .
34 Whatever this may mean , it is a brave utterance ; the man who believed this would never admit defeat .
35 But this would never do for the gilded 1960s radicals .
36 This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states .
37 Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open .
38 This would never have happened before Boldwood fell in love with Bathsheba .
39 Back in the workhouse this would never have happened . ’
40 But , in itself , this would never have been enough .
41 He should have known this would never work .
42 Although some of these defects might eventually be treatable by gene therapy , this would never be possible for all of them , and prevention is in any case better than cure .
43 ‘ She also said if he 'd gone like he said he was going to , this would never have happened and they would all have been a lot better off . ’
44 Some would never appear , vaporized , lost for ever , having ceased to exist .
45 Some of the others would have to be rewired ; some would never be rewired again , but all she had was a headache .
46 I said , ‘ Gentlemen , this will never be right until you have mastered it completely and are free of the page .
47 Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair .
48 But this will never be on the agenda , because it would require levels of social justice and redistribution that the rich will not consider . ’
49 This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did .
50 This will never happen with obstetrical anaesthesia since almost every subject is controversial .
51 He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do …
52 and a tragedy like this will never happen again .
53 He added : ‘ People probably think something like this will never happen to them .
54 This will never be an easy concept for people who have always been led [ and perhaps not very well led ! ] but who are very capable of leading themselves .
55 For that , some will never forgive him .
56 Some will never go away .
57 Probably , though this can never be wholly proven , the night of Friday , 4 May 1984 .
58 However , this can never be a free and equal contract , because the individual worker must have work at any price simply in order to survive , while the capitalist ( though needing workers ) can employ or sack any individual he chooses .
59 This checking role was to be played by the Senate , as John Adams explained : The rich ought to have an effectual barrier in the constitution against being robbed , plundered , and murdered , as well as the poor ; and this can never be without an independent Senate .
60 This can never be inferior to a logarithmic search ( as n can not be less than one ) and is usually far superior .
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