Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb mod] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The didactic contract is between teacher and pupil although it may never be made explicit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although it will never attain real equality , a democratic society will seek to ensure that there is a redistribution in wealth through taxation which funds the services which provide help to those that need it . |
| 5 | It would not have the confidence of the people , so it would never work . |
| 6 | Everything look alright again , and then the weather worsened and the attempt looked like it would never happen . |
| 7 | It felt dead , marooned , abandoned , as if it would never move . |
| 8 | It is a lovely city , the war seems very far away , as if it can never reach me there . ’ |
| 9 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 10 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 11 | Referring to the recent bomb blasts in Belfast , Portadown and Magherafelt , Sir Patrick told reporters that he believed the IRA had stepped up its campaign of destruction because it would never win by the ballot-box and he revealed that he would be talking to senior RUC officers later today to discuss the present security situation . |
| 12 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 13 | At the same time , he wryly noted , success helped ‘ create a Ferrari crisis , because it could never be bettered , and the tremendous success brought new problems ’ . |
| 14 | We need a variety of materials in a wide range of formats utilizing therefore a number of different types of equipment ; because it will never make sense to have maximum collections in every classroom , we are likely to value a central pool from which everyone can draw , and the ability to inspect , copy and borrow materials from other schools and central LEA collections . |
| 15 | ‘ Because it will never be offered again . ’ |
| 16 | For social scientists trained in empirical inquiry this means that the whole theory is invalid because it can never be invalidated by exposing it to analysis in the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 17 | Well we had eight different presentations , er i warmed , I suppose , to two of them erm was a small engineering company in the motor trade which , while it will never make a fortune will probably make a living and the people seem to need help . |
| 18 | While it can never be legitimately said of a theory that it is true , it can hopefully be said that it is the best available , that it is better than anything that has come before . |
| 19 | Allowance must always be made for wind strength and the possibility of strong sink , since it can never be known beforehand whether there will be lift or sink on the way back . |
| 20 | The position with syntax is however different , since it can never be guaranteed that a sufficient quantity of tokens of a given type of construction will ever appear in a piece of spontaneous discourse . |
| 21 | The metaphor of war came as naturally to the lips of men who discussed their ‘ struggle for existence ’ or the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , as the metaphor of peace came to them when they described the home : ‘ the dwelling place of joy ’ , the place where ‘ the satisfied ambition of the heart rejoiced ’ , as it could never rejoice outside , since it could never be satisfied , or afford to admit itself satisfied . |
| 22 | By prodding his memory he placed Anna Beckett as the strange , dark little girl who was fostered with Mrs Wooldridge , his laundry woman , and with his new knowledge he thought he could see a slight resemblance to Sarah , though it would never be remarked upon . |
| 23 | It was against her nature to tell anything but the whitest of white lies , but she was of necessity getting better at it , though it would never sit comfortably with her conscience and her sense of fairness and justice . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The weather smiled as though it could never frown . |
| 26 | Indeed it probably encouraged them , though it must never be forgotten that for every nursemaid or gardener who lived out their lives in the service of one family there were a hundred country girls who passed briefly through the household to pregnancy , marriage or another job , being treated merely as yet another instance of that ‘ servant problem ’ which filled the conversations of their mistresses . |
| 27 | The metaphor of war came as naturally to the lips of men who discussed their ‘ struggle for existence ’ or the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , as the metaphor of peace came to them when they described the home : ‘ the dwelling place of joy ’ , the place where ‘ the satisfied ambition of the heart rejoiced ’ , as it could never rejoice outside , since it could never be satisfied , or afford to admit itself satisfied . |
| 28 | They , the audience , were what mattered , for it should never be forgotten that it was their patronage and their applause which truly kept the theatre alive . |