Example sentences of "never [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for a while the new venture flourished , far outstripping its neighbour , Rye , it was never the success its royal founder had hoped . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose these incentives made a deal of difference to the attendance as families were either ‘ church ’ or ‘ chapel ’ and never the twain shall meet . |
| 3 | Never the twain shall meet . ’ |
| 4 | Generally , the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types , and never the twain shall meet . |
| 5 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 6 | Terry and June ( aaaghhh , no , no , I 'll do anything , but please , not Terry and June ) , Father Dear Father , Never The Twain and Bless This House have returned . |
| 7 | Inside a packed-to-capacity press box , national passions were running high Scottish press corps to the right , English press to the left , and never the twain shall meet . |
| 8 | We talk very freely , always using the talkback , never the phone . |
| 9 | But without Pearce there was never the pace in a Forest side , who looked distinctly foot-weary , to test Schmeichel . |
| 10 | In the Sonnets , clearly , the speaker is sometimes placed in a respectful relationship , the disinterested friend advising a brilliant young man to marry ; at other times he is an equal , celebrating a friendship or reproaching its betrayal ; but he is never the superior . |
| 11 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 12 | Gutiérez is never the servant of his own brilliant technique . |
| 13 | There was extragastric involvement of other mucosal sites in eight patients ( mainly the lung , but also the parotid gland and small bowel ) , but rarely was bone marrow and never the spleen or peripheral lymph nodes affected . |
| 14 | In practice this is never the case . |
| 15 | However , there are still quite a few rather heavily marked White Parks and sometimes a completely black calf is thrown , which is never the case with the pure Chillinghams . |
| 16 | This was never the case and in the current working world it is even less so because of developing technology which has its impact on almost all jobs and also on the social context of work . |
| 17 | Key statements in many LEA policy documents show a concern for ‘ harmony ’ and ‘ stability ’ , which is never the case in sex equality policies or statements on girls ' education . |
| 18 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 19 | Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area . |
| 20 | This is almost never the case with substances such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine . |
| 21 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 22 | Maurice Sendak also has a clear idea of his role ( Lorraine , 1977 , p. 152 ) : ‘ To be an illustrator is to be a participant , someone who has something equally important to say as the writer of the book — occasionally something more important , but certainly never the writer 's echo ’ . |
| 23 | He always got the profits but never the blame . |
| 24 | If you need to tap in place , use the handle of your club hammer — never the head |
| 25 | I always try solving problems by starting at the end — never the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 27 | He does say that the word ‘ universal ’ is ‘ never the name of any thing existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I was never the centre of attention , like you . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , life had come , but not as they had dreamed it , as the great liberator from restraint and narrowness , but rather as the great enemy , with which he had to fight , fight as he was still fighting today and must fight until the end , with never the hope of victory ! |
| 30 | Indeed , the very idea of resistance is generally excluded from social-control theories , because the deviant group is perceived to be powerless , forever the object of someone else 's control , never the subject of its own thoughts and actions . |