Example sentences of "[noun] [be] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , and to add insult to injury , these off-centre policies are never supported by a clear majority of the electorate . |
| 2 | Living in such a cloistered world such operations are never looked at objectively but simply as a means of gaining personal kudos for one small group within an agency . |
| 3 | However , attitudes are never changed without causing offence ; hence the anger which often lies behind certain remarks about ‘ aggressive ’ women . |
| 4 | Assumptions ( ii ) and ( iii ) may present considerable problems in practise for in reality loads are never applied to the ends of a sample , but to its side-ends , and so the uniformity of stress across the sample is called into question . |
| 5 | Cultural forms are never established by technical conveniences . |
| 6 | The principles of credit rating are immutable , they insist ; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others . |
| 7 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 8 | Dishonesty and partiality are never mentioned in expert clauses as factors whose presence the parties agree would be sufficient to upset a decision : it is so obvious that it goes without saying , and is therefore an implied term . |
| 9 | Children of all ages are never forgotten at Sunwing — there 's a ‘ Club 13 ’ and ‘ Club 18 ’ , as well as a miniclub for the youngest ( and most energetic ) holidaymakers . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir , ’ they say , ‘ thank God there is someone … restored my faith in human nature … performed a signal service … struck a blow for common sense and ordinary human decency … exposed the hypocrisy of those who for our sins are set in authority over us … expressed what the vast majority of people fed … spoken up for the minority whose views are never taken into account … ’ |
| 11 | Their voices are never raised in greeting — the whole week I ca n't remember a shout bar the occasional ‘ hola ’ . |
| 12 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |
| 13 | The early steps in their relationship were not easy , and a few in the industry were never reconciled to his leadership , though all recognised that he was acquiring a strong sense of identity with the industry 's interests . |
| 14 | In December 1942 an Inspectorate of Eastern Troops was set up to supervise the formation and training of the proliferating military units ; but each was subordinated to a German unit ; and although an officer 's academy was established at Mariumpol , Lithuania ( later Conflans , France ) , the units were never assembled into tactical formations , and were largely posted on occupation duties to Western and Southern Europe . |
| 15 | ( One of the cruellest ironies of the death camps is that Jews were never meant to be thin . ) |
| 16 | Many bookcases and sets of shelves displayed in furniture shops were never designed by a book man or anyone well acquainted with books , especially where sizes are concerned . |
| 17 | It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away . |
| 18 | When he sat and talked to Jekub , frogs were never dragged into the conversation . |
| 19 | Giant rectal contractions were never seen in normal subjects . |
| 20 | Just as we hare up one terminal-strewn alley we are diverted by quicksilver turns to another , a snappy script is never slave to technology and the piece is universally well acted . |
| 21 | So the rule is never take without asking . |
| 22 | Then they got some bloody er parent who said my Johnny 's never heard of that word before |
| 23 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 24 | A bishopric was not re-created at Ripon ( perhaps because a papal privilege was now recognized as protecting the monastery there ) , but Wilfrid was never restored to York during Aldfrith 's reign . |
| 25 | Unlike Nicolae 's sister , Elena Barbulescu , Elena Ceauşescu was never tempted by her power to stray from fidelity to her husband . |
| 26 | The adult Nizan was never to escape from it . |
| 27 | The United Nations was never intended to police the world . |
| 28 | The term was never used in regard to anything acceptable . |
| 29 | Proper data was never collected at the time . |
| 30 | The Orkney parents were never informed by the Islands ' Social Work Department of their own legal rights and the statutory powers , duties and roles of the agencies involved . |