Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] never [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 2 | I disagree and think that a lone driver should never give lifts to strangers . |
| 3 | Employers should never advise employees to sell their properties and leave no stake in the UK housing market . |
| 4 | And the agreement may insist that the duchess should never act in a way that brings the royal family into disrepute . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus associative adjectives should never admit an intensifying adverb . |
| 7 | Thus , according to Bork ( 1978 , p. 245 ) ‘ in the absence of a most unlikely proved predatory power and purpose , antitrust should never object to the verticality of any merger ’ and , much more straightforward , ‘ every vertical restraint should be completely lawful ’ ( p. 288 ) . |
| 8 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 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 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 11 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never play top class soccer again the doctor who operated on his injured right ankle said today . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 14 | In fact , if the search space has unlimited depth , then depth first search may never stop whereas breadth first search would succeed . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the thirteenth-century Newstead Priory forms the terminus of the tail , but the Mycenean custom of removing the tail of the sacred bull implies that the Stamford figure may never have had one . |
| 16 | Thrifts should never have been subsidised and led into junk in the first place . |
| 17 | In a letter to a newspaper , their solicitor Tim Robinson says that his clients should never have been prosecuted at all . |
| 18 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 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 | It struck him suddenly , like the teeth of a trap round his skull , that it was quite possible that he and Bella might never live with each other again . |
| 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 | Without Gollum Good could never have succeeded in destroying Evil and when the Ring is gone the Elves feel forced to leave Middle Earth because there is nothing more for them to do . |
| 23 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 24 | David could never do those things . |
| 25 | I am also confident that BT is not achieving that by exploiting customers because of the tight price controls which Labour could never offer , since in its day the company was nationalised and did not work nearly as well . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A stranger could never imagine that it had been the scene of such horror . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm optimistic — a pessimist could never support Arsenal ! ’ |