Example sentences of "[be] never in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're never in business until you 've got an overdraft . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm never in bed before about one — not on my own ! ’ |
| 3 | Up to 1950 , said the authors of Social Trends 20 , the respectable were never in debt . |
| 4 | Dad was always the politest of men , but we were never in doubt that his respect was given for character only , never for mere rank or status , and there seems to be a streak of non-conformity in all his descendants so far . |
| 5 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 6 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 7 | Crusaders , who hammered Wakefield 30-0 in the first round , were never in front and were let down by bad handling in atrocious conditions . |
| 8 | Victory meant , conversely , that in all the negotiations of the subsequent two years , Charles 's claims to Aquitaine were never in dispute . |
| 9 | What is never in doubt is the Russian poet 's belief that he has an audience to address , and one , moreover , that is ready and willing to listen . |
| 10 | The answer is never in doubt , and neatly topical in a week when American voters showed their preference for small-town boys over city slickers . |
| 11 | At one level , then , racism tends to be read as a kind of horrific soap opera in which the surface incidents are ever changing , but the underlying plot remains constant , generating one episode of discrimination after another , punctuated by atrocities which have no end even though paradoxically the final , cataclysmic outcome is never in doubt : for it will be the fire next time , the Armageddon which puts an end to chronic injustice , once and for all . |
| 12 | Their femaleness ( sexual availability ) is never in doubt . |
| 13 | However much we bicker , shout and protest , however much we all doubt and shake knowing heads , the body-counts are never in doubt . |
| 14 | It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town . |
| 15 | He was never in favour — too old for her and too experienced and sophisticated ; but you know what young girls are — always fall flat on their faces for a good-looking fellow . " |
| 16 | At 39 he was made chairman of the Conservative Party by Sir Alec Douglas-Home , but was never in favour during the Heath years . |
| 17 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 18 | The end to expenditure was never in sight . |
| 19 | You see , said Lucy , I was never in love with you . |
| 20 | I was never in love with you . |
| 21 | I was never in love with you . |
| 22 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 23 | ‘ Celeste was never in love with me , it was the idea of me that she loved . |
| 24 | It was never in doubt . |
| 25 | According to Sir Claus , who ran the services from 1967 to 1978 : ‘ Before the Rayner Review the purpose of the government statistical services was to serve several masters , first and foremost — and this was never in doubt - the Government ; but also industry , academics the public , indeed the whole nation … |
| 26 | The outcome was never in doubt . |
| 27 | Clifford 's unorthodoxy was never in doubt : ‘ The Church ’ he claimed , ‘ has made too much of theology . ’ |
| 28 | The orchestra 's disciplined and responsive virtuosity was never in doubt . |
| 29 | To judge by appearances Nietzsche was a loony who went round market places declaring God to be dead and eventually was declared mad ( although from his earlier work Zarathustra the matter was never in doubt ) . |
| 30 | The championship was never in doubt as Mansell reeled off victory after victory . |