Example sentences of "might never " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jay , she might never let go . |
| 2 | But she might never . ’ |
| 3 | It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’ |
| 4 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 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 | He wrote to Fisher that while she might never be strong , her health did not depend upon locality . |
| 7 | Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder , RAF commander in Egypt , wrote that ‘ the cloven hoof of Pan American [ is ] now well to the fore ’ , and called BOAC 's attitude ‘ hopelessly defeatist ’ , Pan American was making inroads in Africa and the Middle East that BOAC might never be able to match . |
| 8 | And there might never be another world . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He might never have thought … ’ |
| 10 | You and Paul might never have existed . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that the two old ladies did a little plotting to marry their favourite grandchildren off to on another ; but without the events of 1979 their dearest hopes might never have come to be . |
| 12 | In a real sense league has been the making of him , supplying the hard gloss finish he might never have acquired in union . |
| 13 | He manufactured stories about the cannibalistic Caribs he never met : without the Admiral 's inventive mind , Shakespeare 's audience might never have encountered Caliban on Prospero 's island . |
| 14 | Like you now , I felt that I might never come back . |
| 15 | And stashed away too , was her new fear that she might never , ever be able to recreate such pictures in her mind again . |
| 16 | I might never get out of here because of him ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 19 | Even though individual Christians might never have suffered any harassment , their corporate existence and their way of thinking were determined by this condition . |
| 20 | It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so . |
| 21 | Shimon is clean out of her mind , he might never have existed , he 's far further away from her than Australia . ’ |
| 22 | The courts could not create a ‘ surrogate right of appeal ’ by extending the High Court 's supervisory role through judicial review proceedings , even though it meant a trial might never take place . |
| 23 | THERE was a fear that John Patten might never make it to the Cabinet . |
| 24 | ‘ Had Father brought Winnie back to Winnipeg we might never have had the Pooh stories , ’ says Fred Colebourn , Harry 's son . |
| 25 | I felt so wretched , because I thought I might never see you again . |
| 26 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 28 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 29 | Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born . |
| 30 | Then truly he was afraid , for his small grey friend had said nothing of this narrow little place , and he thought if he put his head in he might never come out alive . |