Example sentences of "never [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
2 | They are never the proper subject for comedy . |
3 | In our case , it was never a simple matter of trust , once having been won , being taken for granted , as the textbooks suggest . |
4 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |
5 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
6 | He was never a teacher in a narrow pianistic sense , was never a mere driller of scales . |
7 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
8 | Although you may normally take the view that there is never a best time for spending money , retirement planning is different in that sooner or later you will need , or want , to make certain purchases — or pay off outstanding commitments , such as a mortgage . |
9 | There 's never a dull moment at Ballytreabhair . |
10 | Howson was never a well man after Borneo . |
11 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
12 | He became a junior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1840 , but was never a promising candidate for promotion in the government service . |
13 | Orwell , unlike Waugh , was never a natural master of narrative , and his uncertain career in fiction had begun , after much trial and error , with Burmese Days ( 1934 ) , where he had exploited his youthful experiences in the Burma police . |
14 | It was never a formal club with minutes , or apologies for absence , or any ‘ business ’ or recognizable membership . |
15 | Thirdly , there is therefore never a single hypothesis at stake . |
16 | ‘ There they go again , tweedly-deedly , tweedly-deedly , belly-aching the whole bleeding night , and the toasted cheese seizing on to their plates like goddam glue , which I durse n't go in to fetch them ; and never an honest tune from beginning to end . ’ |
17 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |