Example sentences of "[modal v] never [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 2 | It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained . |
| 3 | Yet it should never be forgotten that some of the disquiet felt about institutional care ( more fully discussed in Chapter 7 ) has arisen from the ‘ scandals ’ of chronic wards in hospitals , in which long-term patients were , on occasion , subjected to degrading treatment . |
| 4 | However , while the cases where multi-ethnic and multi-communal states have fractured , or are close to breaking , naturally attract most attention — the partition of the Indian sub- continent in 1947 , the splitting of Pakistan , the demands for Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka — it should never be forgotten that these are special cases in a world where multi-ethnic and multi- communal states are the norm . |
| 5 | They , the audience , were what mattered , for it should never be forgotten that it was their patronage and their applause which truly kept the theatre alive . |
| 6 | It should never be forgotten that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line . |
| 7 | It must never be thought that a convicted criminal can buy his way out of imprisonment . |
| 8 | But it must never be forgotten that , if this happens , it happens by accident : it can be no part of the system that pupils should be entered for a test because of the age they are or the class they are part of . |
| 9 | It must never be forgotten that the great majority of the English people had only a passing interest in the niceties of academic theology , and that outside the bishops ' palaces and the two universities such issues remained relatively unimportant . |
| 10 | But it must never be forgotten that the political , economic , cultural transformation of the world by European influences went on right down to 1945 and beyond . |
| 11 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 12 | Indeed it probably encouraged them , though it must never be forgotten that for every nursemaid or gardener who lived out their lives in the service of one family there were a hundred country girls who passed briefly through the household to pregnancy , marriage or another job , being treated merely as yet another instance of that ‘ servant problem ’ which filled the conversations of their mistresses . |
| 13 | I says my god I says it 'll never be known that my brother said that you can be anything and that was first thing he ever gave me . |
| 14 | For one of Karl Barth 's disposition it could never be said that because something has been perceived to be natural by humankind , therefore it is the will of God . |
| 15 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 16 | The position with syntax is however different , since it can never be guaranteed that a sufficient quantity of tokens of a given type of construction will ever appear in a piece of spontaneous discourse . |