Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 2 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 3 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 4 | It is a row that may never be fully resolved . |
| 5 | Nobody wants to spend extra money to prepare for something that may never happen and earthquake engineering has long been neglected . |
| 6 | Now , without constraints , it is possible to develop and explore aspects of ourselves that may never have emerged before . |
| 7 | In other words , carp baits have ceased to be merely baits : they are being catapulted in their thousands into every water in the UK to feed up carp that may never be caught . |
| 8 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 9 | No pressure group can wait around forever for a change of government that may never come . |
| 10 | It is equipment that may never be used . |
| 11 | ‘ I would prefer to be of help to you and Nader , ’ she explained , ‘ rather than wait around for news of Philippe that may never come . ’ |
| 12 | Some MPs warned that the bullying by the Whips ' Office — the worst in 20 years — had opened wounds in the party that may never heal . |
| 13 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |
| 14 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 15 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 16 | The tract also admitted that ‘ there are churches that ought never to have come into existence , churches of dispute and personal pique or eccentricity ’ . |
| 17 | Hilts has fallen under the spell of each in turn — not so deeply as to distort fact , but deeply enough to lose the sardonic , sceptical qualities that ought never quite to desert the journalist . |
| 18 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 19 | That particular question is , of course , one that should never have arisen . |
| 20 | This is one type of stupid error that should never , ever be allowed to occur . |
| 21 | Yet this is a debate that should never have happened . |
| 22 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 24 | I could live comfortably with the knowledge of those nights with Fergus that should never have happened . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |
| 26 | There 's another screech of brakes , and a van that should never have escaped out the scrapyard collapses shuddering in the road . |
| 27 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 28 | It 's something that should never happen . |
| 29 | It was an error that should never have happened . |
| 30 | Bleached bodies lie beached in the full heat , revealing sights that should never be disclosed to the closest lover let alone half of Teesside . |