Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] never [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 2 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 3 | It reduces the weights of rules which may never have occurred in any conflict set . |
| 4 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 5 | You worry in the here and now about things in the future which may never happen . |
| 6 | But , as that is an event which may never happen , the distinction is merely between the contingency of the tenant breaking the conditions and the contingency of the company wanting the premises in order to pull them down . |
| 7 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |
| 8 | As a result , the Government backed off , and the new regulation , which should never have been proposed in the first place , was ignominiously withdrawn . |
| 9 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 10 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 11 | UR continue to expand their operation with new labels , but maintain a staunchly underground bunker mystique which could never come out and turn to breakbeat commercialism . |
| 12 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 13 | Among those who found wartime location shooting refreshing was the actor Michael Redgrave who credited much of the quality in The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ) , Asquith 's atmospheric picture about life on an airforce base , to ‘ the atmosphere of those three weeks at Catterick , which could never have been created in the studio . ’ |
| 14 | We should have had , at best , a continuous middle-of-the-road government which could never have taken radical reforming measures . |
| 15 | It is also , of course , from the perspective of the defendant and the prosecutor the inconvenient and expensive course to take , and one which could never have been taken if the case had begun in front of a bench of three ( see e.g. Bromley JJ. ex p Haymills ( Contractors ) Ltd. [ 1984 ] Crim.L.R. 235 ) . |
| 16 | But he recognised the abominably shredded and mutated head , and the bloodstained and distorted arms that ended in claws which could never have been human . |
| 17 | Rowden is a fine school and it 'll give him plenty of sports and develop a side of him which could never see the light of day in Ireland . |
| 18 | people dismissed the affair as a rash mistake which would never last . |
| 19 | Made of lead , which would never break , |
| 20 | ( Though my local shop which would never stock such fish deliberately , had on accidental import hiding among some Red Eye Tetras last week . |
| 21 | Everyone laughed , but for the ashen-faced small man in the shadows , in his ragged , striped jersey and his cheap trainers with his mop of black hair and his patchy moustache which would never meet in the middle . |
| 22 | The truth was that there was a substantial mortgage on the property which would never enable the appellant to pay compensation in the amount which he instructed his representatives to offer . |
| 23 | There was a touch of elfish melancholy , as well as of delicacy , in Tolkien which would never respond to the broader outlines of Lewis 's essentially sunny disposition . |
| 24 | Allan Auty , prosecuting for Liverpool trading standards department , told the court that the videos which would never receive a certificate for distribution in this country were beyond belief . |
| 25 | CPRW contends that it illustrates all too clearly how a development which would never obtain consent in the enlightened planning world of today , can creep incrementally but inexorably towards permanence through stealth and dogged persistence . |
| 26 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 27 | Many of Brindley 's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day . |
| 28 | What follows must be speculative in nature until the Cheka archives for 1921–2 are opened up , since matters are involved which would never have been aired publicly . |
| 29 | It did not evolve from the previous work on the classical Super ( which would never have led to it ) but was a piece of serendipity . |
| 30 | Many other lessons were learnt from the Torch landings , which would never have succeeded against serious opposition . |