Example sentences of "could never [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 2 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
| 3 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 4 | Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other . |
| 5 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |
| 6 | In such a close encounter it surely could never have happened to the local hero in Italy , San Juan or other more volatile boxing outposts . |
| 7 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 8 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 9 | ‘ I could never have dreamed of the European Cup final at Oldham or Easter Road . |