Example sentences of "never [adj] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring .
2 When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house .
3 There were never enough men for the work they had to do .
4 On the first morning , England crashed to 55 for 4 and there was never any doubt about the result ; by the close , it had become 135 all out , and in three overs West Indies batted , two catches were dropped .
5 Though he was , by all accounts , enthusiastic about Decca 's idea for the party-turns in their famous 1960 recording of Die Fledermaus , there was never any question of the operetta itself being subject to vulgar comic hype .
6 As the taxpayer is on a remittance basis ( both with respect to the income arising in the trust and with respect to the new source of income ) there should be no possible problems in connection with s739 ; there is never any remittance to the United Kingdom of the income .
7 There is never any indication of the resistance to colonialism , or of nationalist struggles for self-determination .
8 There was never any intention on the part of the landlords to exclude the subtenant from possession .
9 ‘ There was never any intention for the advert to be racist . ’
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