Example sentences of "[noun] that it [vb mod] never " in BNC.

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1 But it may cause cancers , but that 's so long in the future that it may never be traced back to Oxford .
2 The 11 May sale features over one hundred paintings and drawings , highlighted by George Braque 's late masterpiece ‘ Atelier VIII ’ ( 1952–55 ) ( est. around $8–10 million ) , bought by Cooper directly from the artist , who had sold it only on condition that it would never leave France .
3 I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done .
4 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 .
5 The aspirations of the society of my day were mirrored in miniature in that watch : the desire that it should never need maintenance , should never run down .
6 And this money would have to be spent in the knowledge that it would never produce a profit , only the hope of a safer world .
7 I 'll pull out my sword like this ’ — and I showed him what I would do — ‘ and give the creature such a wound that it will never come near me again ! ’
8 And he said he would n't be able to cope , but it was in the pretext that it would never happen to us .
9 Few would argue with the proposition that it should never be allowed to return to power .
10 A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again .
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