Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing use of electrical power made some form of metering essential , so that it could be properly charged for , and Forbes was one of several who invented instruments for this purpose , though his was never widely adopted . |
| 2 | It argued that more teachers should be encouraged into primary schools ( especially men , graduates and those who had specialised in maths or science ) , and a new group of staff called ‘ teachers ’ aides ' should be recruited with a similar status to nursery assistants [ never widely implemented ] . |
| 3 | In Britain the reforms which were introduced in the White Paper Working for Patients in 1989 were never widely understood and have still not won public support . |
| 4 | Though attitude surveys were never widely used in Britain , none the less , the achievements of these researchers have inevitably influenced the work of modern survey analysts in the design and the analysis of questionnaires . |
| 5 | The use of guardianship was never widely taken up , however , and in 1978 a total of 138 people were subject to it , of whom only 37 were mentally ill . |
| 6 | For example , the relationship between education and economic need — which had for long been a matter of concern in Britain and the object of telling comparisons with Germany and the USA — was never fundamentally tackled [ Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 7 | She had never wholly believed it , but oh , how desperately she had wanted to ! |
| 8 | Foreign relations and international involvement have never wholly lost their sense of being essentially instrumental in nature . |
| 9 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 10 | As in Provence in southern France , links with the Roman tradition were never wholly severed so that arches , arcades , entablatures , columns and capitals tend to approach the classical form more than the Medieval . |
| 11 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 12 | She prayed for faith , addressing a God whom she had never altogether managed to believe in , but clinging to the structure of the Roman Catholic Church as though it might do instead . |
| 13 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the truce of 1396 was never properly observed . |
| 14 | Sadly that promise was never properly fulfilled . |
| 15 | This will mean that recovery when it comes is likely to be long-drawn-out and possibly never properly fulfilled . |
| 16 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 17 | If she were truthful , she had never properly imagined Bella as anything , except perhaps a spiteful , over-painted tart , drenched in a cheap scent , who was beginning to put on weight and let herself go . |
| 18 | Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations , they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them . |
| 19 | It was strange , she thought , as Unice knitted and Anna sewed and Alice consulted her pattern , and the good old granddaddy Stephan watched the fire , strange she had never properly felt sex before . |
| 20 | The nephew , seeing something about Auntie he had never properly perceived before , said quite humbly : " Yes , I see … " |
| 21 | What this might be , other than the preservation of capital accumulation , is never properly explained . |
| 22 | The policy on home-school links was never properly defined , despite its prominence in the programme 's initial aims . |
| 23 | A fascinating satirical theme is never properly pushed to its limits and all concerned sadly bottle out , with plot and action drooping along with its protagonists ' derrieres . |
| 24 | Ageing skin , a problem recognised for centuries but one never properly understood , until today . |
| 25 | The others were never properly born . ’ |
| 26 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 27 | I oppose the Poll Tax because it is unfair and the legislation was a botched-job , never properly thought out ! |
| 28 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 29 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 30 | AT1 : ‘ It 's never properly cleaned . ’ |