Example sentences of "[modal v] never have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paddocks should never have acute angles or corners of less than ninety degrees , where a horse may become trapped by others ; fences should never have barbed wire or cattle mesh in them . |
| 2 | Paddocks should never have acute angles or corners of less than ninety degrees , where a horse may become trapped by others ; fences should never have barbed wire or cattle mesh in them . |
| 3 | He should never have another dog . |
| 4 | We might never have this chance again … |
| 5 | I 've got a lot on my mind : the state of the economy , interest rates , disarmament in the Warsaw Pact , lead in petrol , why nobody lets England win at cricket any more , does the Aids scare mean we 'll never have another vampire movie , are forty-eight satellite TV channels enough … ’ |
| 6 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 7 | So if you have ten male offspring , nine of them will be wasted , they 'll never have any reproductive success , but the one that does will have ten times the reproductive success of all the others and you end up evens . |
| 8 | If we are going to get this philosophic about every detail we 'll never have any plan at all … |
| 9 | You 'll never have any life you know |
| 10 | You 'll never have any life of your own would you ? |
| 11 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 12 | As a person , you know , I 'd never have any time . |
| 13 | I mean to say er used to see people years ago and they got these cine cameras and and all , we could never have one of those you know and a record of the kids when they were young . |
| 14 | And the great full summer world , instead of being a throbbing and a weight and a grinding torture , stretched its arms towards him , a lush open welcoming meadow he could never have enough of and was all there , all his , waiting . |
| 15 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Lucy replied , knowing she could never have enough of the place which was a strange mixture of excitement on the river and tranquillity in the bush . |
| 16 | Sri Lanka would never have such problems if the country relied on its own resources — if it cultivated appreciation of native food and agricultural systems which have evolved over centuries to meet the population 's needs . |
| 17 | ‘ The lady informs me , ’ said the Substitute as they drove away and the Captain reported the husband 's silence , ‘ that his brother is a bad lot , the bane of her life , that she would never have married Salvatore — who , I should tell you , is a saint , a veritable saint , when considered on his own — if she had known she 'd be stuck with the terrible Antonio as well . |
| 18 | On the other hand , there would be no point at all in sending the same samples to agricultural journalists , who would never have any occasion to write about the company 's products . |
| 19 | When her mother died Constance had turned slightly vegetarian and announced that she would never have any children since her mum had had ten and put her off the whole idea , and she gave away the chickens . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose it 's not surprising you do n't understand — you 'd never behave like that , would never have any need to … |
| 21 | Many younger people surveyed believe they would never have enough money to fulfil their dream . |
| 22 | Churchill in office would never have wasted time in the smoking room without an audience . |
| 23 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 24 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 25 | But I 'd love to have kids , and I would n't like to think I would never have another physical relationship with a woman ’ — Richard |
| 26 | But I 'd love to have kids , and I would n't like to think I would never have another physical relationship with a woman . |
| 27 | Thus the Earl of Nottingham , Secretary of State from 1702 to 1704 , and a chief advocate of such a strategy , wrote in 1703 that " we shall never have any decisive success nor be able to hold out a war against France but by making it a sea War , and such a sea War as accompanies and supports attempts on land " . |
| 28 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 29 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 30 | Yet many people will never have any contact with social workers . |