Example sentences of "would never [vb infin] occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |
| 2 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 3 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 4 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 5 | Had these been their primary concerns instead of biblical indoctrination , it is possible that the tragic famines and misery now prevalent would never have occurred . |
| 6 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 7 | They were not unkind people , not mean-minded , but it would never have occurred to them to offer to help . |
| 8 | All the same , it was more difficult and it would never have occurred to many people that they might do so . |
| 9 | But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her . |
| 10 | Most of the issues that Dewey raises would never have occurred had the journal editor simply followed common courtesy . |
| 11 | ‘ If you had n't started talking about God and graven images the subject would never have occurred to him . ’ |
| 12 | When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear . |
| 13 | It would never have occurred to me to try and get in touch with him . |
| 14 | So the question of her taking a five-mile hike across what in parts was sometimes rough terrain would never have occurred . |
| 15 | I mean , years ago that would never have occurred . |