Example sentences of "it [modal v] ever [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that 's bad or that it should ever stop being that way . |
| 2 | Sukarno regained importance as consensus figure : ‘ If it should ever turn out that Sjahrir is not maintaining the demand for 100 per cent Merdeka … then I have the right to dismiss him ’ , he told a wildly cheering crowd on 17 February 1946 . |
| 3 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 4 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 'll ever happen , but I can see it so clearly . |
| 6 | He says ‘ SAG efforts are frozen , it ca n't decide which way to go and does n't look like it 'll ever get its act together . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , I do n't think it 'll ever take off actu , actually , because er you 've got all the traffic all there already and if you 've got say , say you have got Hibs and Hearts you got all the traffic going out there at the same time and it 's gon na be chock-a-block ! |
| 8 | It was one of the truly marvellous innings , one that no one who saw it could ever forget ; since it has been shown on television virtually every time rain has stopped play in any match since , it would be almost impossible to have forgotten it anyway . |
| 9 | The gesture , if it could ever have had any importance , was now certainly much too late , for it was no longer in Paris but in Berlin that events would be decided , as Bismarck had begun to make clear . |
| 10 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 11 | And what took place on Neville 's Island that foggy November weekend , no-one who witnessed it would ever forget … |
| 12 | Indeed , many were beginning to doubt whether it would ever get off the ground but news that work will start next week will provide fresh confidence and eagerness to see what develops . |
| 13 | It was unlikely that it would ever occur to them to surrender . |
| 14 | He had no fears that the pursuit of science need crush the imagination , or lead to a tedious style ; or that it would ever become the favourite study of the many , overgrowing and smothering ethical and elevating influences , though perhaps too passive , from Literature and Art . |
| 15 | I never ever thought , my darling , that it would ever happen to me , that a man , a real man , a man with … . ’ she gave a little , happy gurgle , ‘ shoulders , and legs and eyes and things to say … would look at me … . ’ |
| 16 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 17 | Thus 1848 and 1849 were the years of great reform of the Austrian school system ; the defeat of the army by France/Piedmont in 1859 was followed by the establishment of constitutional government ; and the defeat of the army by Prussia in 1866 brought liberalism to as close as it would ever come to full state power and led to the establishment of the dual monarchy the following year . |
| 18 | I do n't think it will ever change again . |
| 19 | I doubt now that it will ever recover . ’ |
| 20 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 21 | Do you think it will ever grow back ? |
| 22 | He did not often score goals , but no-one who saw it will ever forget the one he hit from fully 25 yards in the floodlit friendly against Real Madrid . |
| 23 | It was 41 for 4 at tea , nine wickets having fallen for 69 in a session which none who experienced it will ever forget . |
| 24 | My personal view is , they 're being optimistic and I 'm not sure it will ever happen . ’ |
| 25 | However , there is little sign that it will ever produce compounds on the scale required by the heavy organic chemicals industry . |
| 26 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 27 | I have authorised his scheme , but that is not to say it will ever come about . |
| 28 | The ASB will , before long , be producing proposals on some of the most difficult subjects that it will ever have to face . |
| 29 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 30 | He says ‘ SAG efforts are frozen , it ca n't decide which way to go and does n't look as if it will ever get its act together . ’ |