Example sentences of "might never [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it .
2 If she had not done so , her work might never have been discovered by American readers .
3 Asterix might never have been born but for a chance meeting in 1951 with another cartoonist , Rene Goscinny , at the Paris offices of a Belgian newspaper syndicate .
4 Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born .
5 The best books of today do not look in the least like Kelmscotts , but without Morris they might never have been created at all .
6 Indeed , he had a remarkable gift for extracting from even the most commonplace remarks or situations some latent humour , which otherwise might never have been suspected .
7 But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced .
8 So far as the general public is concerned , as well as the churches which minister to that public , the works cited above might never have been produced .
9 And those responsible might never have been brought to justice .
10 Why was such a dangerous practice allowed to continue with the chance that the offender might never have been caught ?
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