Example sentences of "might never [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 2 | Thomas Paine was one radical who accepted the inevitability of representative rather than direct democracy , but urged that in order " that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors , prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often " . |
| 3 | She felt she might never eat again until Betty had gone . |
| 4 | If she did not return to the Lodge she might never experience such terror again , but the memory of it would never leave her . |
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| 7 | However , those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world . |
| 8 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 9 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 10 | Finally , move into the place it occupied , and try to breathe in and ‘ own ’ the qualities it represented — even though you might never choose to express them . |
| 11 | THERE was a fear that John Patten might never make it to the Cabinet . |
| 12 | DELIGHTED transplant girl Laura Davies burst into song to celebrate a journey her parents feared she might never make yesterday . |
| 13 | Terence Place , although highly favoured for the job , had not confessed and might never do so . |
| 14 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 15 | The number might never end , and Susan would be caught for ever . |
| 16 | Yet the alternative , to sit and wait for help that might never arrive , was terrifying . |
| 17 | Congress , the empoy employment consequences of Tyneside , should Swan Hunters be allowed to close , would be disastrous , a catastrophe from which I believe Tyneside might never recover . |
| 18 | ‘ Gina , I know rape is not just a physical assault , I know Miranda might never recover from the emotional damage , I am concerned for the girl . ’ |
| 19 | He had wept almost at the calling up of Michael Soames , who he thought might never dance again , but had given us a most glowing description of an Egyptian hand dance by Mr Anton Dolin . |
| 20 | Oh he might never settle down |
| 21 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 22 | If I started thinking about things … personal things in my life , I have the feeling I might never stop . |
| 23 | Whatever , it was there , waiting , waiting , waiting — for one ingredient to complete it , to set off a reaction that might never stop . |
| 24 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 25 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 26 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 27 | He might never know of her love , might never want it , but she was his wife . |
| 28 | She might never wear it , except in her bedroom , but she meant to have it . |
| 29 | It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so . |
| 30 | One of them might never walk at all . |