Example sentences of "may never have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 2 | Other Hong Kong businessmen may never have had quite the high-level political contacts of Mr Wu , but they too have cause for concern . |
| 3 | They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means . |
| 4 | Audiences yearn to groan under the yoke of suffering they may never have experienced . |
| 5 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 6 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 7 | Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of these ladies may never have taken an exam in their lives , ’ says Sue , ‘ and getting the certificate does a lot in terms of confidence building . |
| 10 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 11 | Some horses that are well fed on hay and grain all through the dry months of summer may never have a real glow of health until the spring grasses appear . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In our self-absorption , we may never have seen the fullness of joy that we can experience when we begin to know the character of God . |
| 17 | But such criticisms become increasingly unconvincing if one observes the enthusiasm with which such students throw them-selves into new fields , and make themselves experts , within a short time , in subjects they may never have studied before . |
| 18 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 19 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 20 | Now , without constraints , it is possible to develop and explore aspects of ourselves that may never have emerged before . |
| 21 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 22 | Dinosaurs and thecodontians may never have had to ‘ compete ’ directly with synapsids and rhynchosaurs , as envisaged by the authors of all technical and popular literature on this subject . |
| 23 | If the dinosaurs and thecodonians were superior to the types that went before them , they may never have had to demonstrate that fact . |
| 24 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 25 | Wolfram may never have seen a Muslim ; but he preaches , with outspoken conviction , the common humanity , the common place in God 's purpose , of Christian and heathen — ‘ spare God 's handiwork ’ . |
| 26 | Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've loved being single and independent in my 20s , ’ says Anthea , ‘ but , as 30 beckons , I 'm asking myself if not having a life partner by now means that I may never have one . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that the thirteenth-century Newstead Priory forms the terminus of the tail , but the Mycenean custom of removing the tail of the sacred bull implies that the Stamford figure may never have had one . |
| 30 | Here 's our driver , whom you may never have seen before ; there 's your vehicle plus its load which can add up to a pretty expensive package . |