Example sentences of "may never [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the US may never have been on the brink of intervention in China she had sent 50,000 marines to Northern China in 1945 , followed by General Marshall acting as Truman 's personal representative . |
| 8 | The other man may never have been in this situation before . |
| 9 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 10 | Bachrach and Baratz argue that pluralists ignore or neglect that ‘ face of power ’ which consists in confining the scope of decision-making to safe issues ; they go on to make the less convincing point that an elite may exist without actually being aware of its own dominance since this may never have been challenged . |
| 11 | However , if Venus has always had as little water as it seems to have today then it may never have been able to achieve such high surface temperatures . |
| 12 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 13 | These Odonata may never have been on Earth before , but they circled the Nuria II in an assured way and then set off northwards towards Australia with leisurely beats of their wings . |
| 14 | It gives voice to women who may never have been heard except for Klein 's encouragement . |
| 15 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 16 | I think the problem is that this one point seven billion was er an actuarial assessment by Watsons i it may never have been that amount of money . |
| 17 | But now they 've got got the additional worry of discovering that the applications they made to various universities and polytechnics back in October may never have been sent . |