Example sentences of "would never [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 2 | Dayglo orange , pink or lime green would never make a successful scheme , although having said that , everyone 's taste is different ! |
| 3 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 4 | He was a known quantity whose devotion to the Soviet Union was unquestioned ; he would never countenance a multi-party system ; he , unlike Nagy , had no intention of withdrawing from the WTO . |
| 5 | Ponyboy feels he should become tough to fit in with his friends , but soon realises that by doing this he would never achieve a better life . |
| 6 | Up to one-third of people can not force themselves through this procedure , even for the best of diagnostic reasons , and the court would never enforce a complete stay of the action in these circumstances ( see further RSC Order 25 , r 6 ) . |
| 7 | The collected thoughts of luminaries such as Kenneth Baker and Margaret Thatcher — not to say the pearls from our own readers — would never reach a wider audience . |
| 8 | Naturally , I told him his suspicions were preposterous and , even if they were true , I would never betray a fellow professional . |
| 9 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 10 | I would never have a better diversion , I thought , then it did get better . |
| 11 | But since the LEP tunnel exists , it is tempting to use it — all the more so because CERN 's member states would never allow a bigger one to be built . |
| 12 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 13 | She saw , too , that they would never get a better moment to start the final , grand hudson . |
| 14 | I would never find a better musician , his contribution to Re:Joyce was unquantifiable . |
| 15 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 16 | ‘ I would never shoot a human being , ’ he growls , reproachfully . |