Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 2 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 3 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 4 | His father had never received compensation from the British Government — his government — for the destruction of his property by those cursed Sinn Feiners . |
| 5 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |
| 6 | In religious communities and seminaries most priests never received Communion ( except on Maundy Thursday ) in a community mass , but removed themselves to celebrate on their own with a single server . |
| 7 | Nine of the group had never received sulphasalazine , the other 25 had been maintained on sulphasalazine 2 ( 2–3 ) g daily for 4.3 ( 0.2–24 ) years before mesalazine treatment . |
| 8 | ‘ He has never courted popularity . ’ |
| 9 | Unlike its East End rivals , however , Truman 's never stopped brewing at Burton , and its Black Eagle brewery there only finally closed in 1970 . |
| 10 | I have had constant new experiences , and I have never stopped learning . |
| 11 | Joe Moss 's phone never stopped ringing . |
| 12 | These people never stopped fighting . |
| 13 | Mind you , Sam Snort never placed rugger buggers very high on the pecking order where horizontal jogging is concerned . |
| 14 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 15 | Its my own personal opinion that the only true love and er I have to honestly say I 've never heard love here defined as I would as the totally unconditional love that happens between a woman and a child , probably from the moment of birth that bonds them through life , that 's the only love that I could ever admit to . |
| 16 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 17 | I 've never heard testimony better delivered than Pulley 's ( and ) Leech gave his with great clearness and good sense ’ . |
| 18 | Kitto never heard sound again . |
| 19 | It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation . |
| 20 | The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races . |
| 21 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
| 22 | We 've never given money directly for pay awards anyway , because if you do that , that 's what the claim always is , you know . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that Yugoslavia was more market-conscious than some other socialist countries , the development of exports was never given priority in its industrial strategy . |
| 24 | Typically he was never given acknowledgement for his part in its creation . |
| 25 | Never given office by the Liberals , he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees . |
| 26 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 27 | ‘ Though my sisters and I were never given pocket money . |
| 28 | Appearing calm and good humoured , he once again denied that Flowers had been his lover , but refused to state unequivocally that he had never committed adultery . |
| 29 | Fitness was the applicant 's clean record , his ability to show that he had never committed fraud or any act of dishonesty or violence , or indulged in any deceitful or oppressive , unfair or improper practices . |
| 30 | At Mrs Parvis 's the metal meat-safe hanging from its nail outside the basement room never contained meat , only sausages and suet , with bluebottles buzzing round . |