Example sentences of "which [pron] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 32 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 33 | The chill of the eternal wind caused Gallois to attack the temporal culture in which no woman admits her age , in which she can never in public admit any exceptional or painful feeling . |
| 34 | Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed . |
| 35 | She is imprisoned within massive earthen walls from which she can never escape for her body is far too big to get through the passages that lead to it . |
| 36 | ‘ In my opinion euthanasia is a crime against humanity which one should never consent or cooperate with . |
| 37 | Of what value after all is a power which one could never use , or at any rate did not know how to use ? |
| 38 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 39 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 40 | Probably you do not care enough for it to create a liking and a need , which we shall never be able to satisfy nevertheless , avoid it unless principle and pleasure and interest all advise it . |
| 41 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 42 | Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese . |
| 43 | He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength . |
| 44 | To facilitate the sorting and parcelling of seizures , we had piles of cigarettes , tobacco and spirits spread around the deck and on the quayside which we would never have dared to attempt in any other place . |
| 45 | Value added tax has been put on spectacles and surgical boots , which we would never have dreamed of doing . |
| 46 | In case this surprises you , and I 'm sure it does n't surprise those of you who are biologists , we have in Britain two terminal links with such a chain , which we would never regard as anything other than perfectly good species . |
| 47 | Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life , which we should never take for granted , and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please , with none to forbid or criticise . |
| 48 | It says simply ‘ Places Of Horror Which We Must Never Forget ’ and then lists ten concentration camps from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen . |
| 49 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 50 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 51 | The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore . |
| 52 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 53 | We have formulated an ideal piece of research which we could never hope to carry out with our own ( almost certainly ) limited money , time and personnel . |
| 54 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 55 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 56 | And which we will never get back ! |
| 57 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 58 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 59 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 60 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |