Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun] as a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain . |
| 4 | BS never mentioned reliability as a problem . |
| 5 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 6 | Why had she never imagined Bella as a redhead ? |
| 7 | He never saw sex as a relief to this pain . |
| 8 | Craig is adamant he never saw Neighbours as a launch pad for his musical career . |