Example sentences of "never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know from experience that many factors — some of which may never be apparent to outside observers — determine whether a prisoner of conscience is released . |
| 2 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 3 | It is as if the war , crisis , living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end . |
| 4 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 5 | The dignity of the State will be enhanced , and with religion as its guide , there will never be a rule that is not just … ’ ( 1930 : 64 ) |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 7 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 8 | That can never be destroyed . |
| 9 | Something that could never be undone , only destroyed outright . |
| 10 | She dreamed of becoming a chef at school , but her domestic science teacher hated her and told her that she would never be a cook . |
| 11 | They should never be bitter . |
| 12 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 13 | I can not send this letter because I am always watched and I must never be a disloyal German . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
| 16 | Moreover , if a pilot decides not to launch in a situation like this , he must never be overruled or criticised for playing it safe . |
| 17 | ( The full opposite rudder must never be taken off if the aircraft is reluctant to recover , because any additional yaw would further flatten the spin . ) |
| 18 | Provided that the need of slipping is spotted straight away , it should never be necessary to side-slip close to the ground . |
| 19 | It should never be undertaken if in any doubt . |
| 20 | It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it . |
| 21 | Emergency contraception sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used as a regular method of family planning . |
| 22 | The derogatory phrase ‘ he 's not a real polis ; he 'll never be a polis as long as he 's got a hole in his arse ’ quickly set out markers to define who was one of us and who was not . |
| 23 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 24 | Remember to keep your body turned square-on and never be tempted to twist your hips away from the opponent . |
| 25 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 26 | The old man will never be good for much now . ’ |
| 27 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 28 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 29 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 30 | Take my situation ; you 'd never be able to handle that , would you ? |