Example sentences of "never have be " in BNC.

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1 Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) .
2 It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built .
3 She stipulated that it must never have been involved in an accident .
4 Bankside Power Station should never have been built .
5 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 .
6 What follows must be speculative in nature until the Cheka archives for 1921–2 are opened up , since matters are involved which would never have been aired publicly .
7 Kipling and Elgar need never have been .
8 ‘ After all , it could never have been told in English . ’
9 Among those who found wartime location shooting refreshing was the actor Michael Redgrave who credited much of the quality in The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ) , Asquith 's atmospheric picture about life on an airforce base , to ‘ the atmosphere of those three weeks at Catterick , which could never have been created in the studio . ’
10 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 .
11 He can never have been more anonymous .
12 It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries
13 Thrifts should never have been subsidised and led into junk in the first place .
14 I think the postman would never have been able to decipher your scribble , your own version of Walser 's MS , Bleistiftgebiet or Kingdom of the Pencil , which we were to describe in a later poem , ‘ The Poem in the Pencil ’ .
15 Arsenical copper could never have been easy to make or work with ; during smelting , clouds of poisonous arsenious oxide are produced and in re-melting the alloy some of the arsenic may be lost .
16 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 .
17 Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on .
18 With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song .
19 Though they may never have been more vulnerable — as Peterborough demonstrated in the Rumbelows Cup — Liverpool are the most experienced team in the last four of the FA Cup .
20 Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest .
21 Mr George Kynock reclaimed the seat most Conservatives felt should never have been lost in the first place .
22 If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed .
23 Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial .
24 While Leapor could never have been published without some support of this kind , patronage introduced a new influence on Leapor 's writing .
25 Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born .
26 And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all .
27 Hegarty also attacked the NIHT for the letting policy on its Belmont estate where , of 185 families , 48 were from outside the Derry area , 25 were policemen and 71 had made applications after 1 January 1959 : ‘ That makes 144 families who should never have been considered for housing at all , ’ he said .
28 Without your support I 'd never have been accepted . ’
29 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 .
30 But a ‘ raspberry flavour ’ food need never have been within sniffing distance of a raspberry .
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