Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo . |
| 2 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 3 | Lawrence added : ‘ Payton has never fully recovered from the FA Cup replay with Portsmouth . |
| 4 | Reading between the lines , I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them . ’ |
| 5 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 6 | On his death-bed , George V visited a royal curse upon the town with his famous final utterance ‘ Bugger Bognor ! ’ , from which the place has never quite recovered . |
| 7 | Gifted The mantle of captaincy has never really settled on Azharuddin 's shoulders for while he remains a gifted and wristy batsmen , he is a shy , sensitive person . |
| 8 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 9 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 10 | ‘ Murtach has never really failed , so he does not know such things happen . ’ |
| 11 | You can see why Sean Young has never really fitted in . |
| 12 | Mr Perot has never yet chosen to give a straight reply to that point . |
| 13 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 14 | The relationship between the band and the paper has never completely recovered . |
| 15 | Gooch has never publicly criticised Ted Dexter and Co for limiting his re-appointment to three one-day matches and three Tests pending a mid-term review . |
| 16 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
| 17 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 18 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 19 | Yet this form of schooling has never really succeeded in England and has been surrounded by hostile controversy and apathy . |
| 20 | Kathie has never directly encountered prejudice . |
| 21 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 22 | Paul Biya did not appear in public for over six months , and his position has never fully recovered in spite of winning a new term in the March 1988 presidential election . |
| 23 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 24 | It seems that Mr Stringer has never really enjoyed a close relationship with the supporters since , but that could all change at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 25 | EVEN though the ghastly Every Loser Wins was the best selling single of 1986 , Nick Berry has never really cashed in as a pop star . |
| 26 | Mark has never before met anybody who says , right in the middle of making love , ‘ Golly , this is fun . ’ |
| 27 | The issue of what might occur if the secession of a Member State were opposed by one or more of the others has never yet arisen . |
| 28 | Silvio has never really recovered from that . ’ |
| 29 | Yet the promised resurrection of the $200 billion-plus market has never quite happened . |
| 30 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |