Example sentences of "it [modal v] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cheer up , love , it may never happen . ’ |
| 2 | Though it may never be possible fully to understand what converts a man to a religion , Eliot 's view of Baudelaire gives us one of the best guides to his own conversion to Christianity . |
| 3 | IT may never be known whether the Syrian army ever really did intend to seize Baabda Palace , drive out General Michel Aoun , and install the new President , Elias Hrawi , in his place . |
| 4 | It may never come . |
| 5 | It may never happen ! ’ |
| 6 | However , some horses are not born friendly , and even if many long hours are spent handling the foal , it may never be really friendly , and in fact may be rather standoffish . |
| 7 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 8 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 9 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 10 | There may have only been just under 500 runners , and it may never rival the London Marathon , but it was good to see this significant part of the running world back on the map again . |
| 11 | ‘ It may never come . ’ |
| 12 | The most important thing is that you do it — do n't wait for your partner to bring the subject up , it may never happen ! |
| 13 | Do n't wait for your partner to bring it up ; it may never happen ! |
| 14 | The alternative is that the dog , like the children , has the capability of becoming aware of the misery of its present existence , although it may never in fact do so . |
| 15 | A male may not be aware or the possibility or a female 's alternative reading of what an object constitutes or signifies ; similarly , it may never occur to a member of a one social class that some revered object may be subject to a parodied and subversive interpretation by members of another . |
| 16 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 17 | So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost . |
| 18 | In any event , Dell will wait and see what customer demand is like before releasing the upgrade ; it may never happen . |
| 19 | Do n't worry — it may never happen . |
| 20 | Concern is growing that the 1985 decree setting aside the Yanomami Park — a large area of Brazilian rainforest inhabited by the Yanomami Indians — faces such massive opposition from Brazil 's powerful politicians , rich landowners and the military that it may never be enacted . |
| 21 | ‘ It may never happen . ’ |
| 22 | However , if Venus has always had as little water as it seems to have today then it may never have been able to achieve such high surface temperatures . |
| 23 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 24 | This may well be so but it may never get tried if the transition is too difficult . |
| 25 | The didactic contract is between teacher and pupil although it may never be made explicit . |
| 26 | Being subjected to volleys of ‘ Cheer up , grandad , it may never happen , ’ was not calculated to endear me to them . |
| 27 | It may be months or years before his work today makes an impact : in the case of a project failure it may never do so . |
| 28 | Also , although the band broadening referred to earlier can be minimized by using long , efficient columns , it may never be entirely eliminated . |
| 29 | It may never happen , that 's what I always say . ’ |
| 30 | If it is your first work of fiction , you should also look at it as part of your groundwork which although it may never see the light of publication , is of great benefit to you as a writer . |