Example sentences of "[adj] [be] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many consumers did not even know of the charge until after the winter of 1948/9 when it was imposed ; because of cyclic meter reading , many received their winter bills only as the charge was lowered ; and some were never surcharged at all .
2 This is never done to motorists , where a very substantial minority of abusers literally get away with murder , despite the existence of technology which could reduce speeds substantially .
3 This is never going to work , Charles was thinking , so what is the point of worrying about it ?
4 Salsburg says this was never done for the NCI test , which throws doubt on the high percentage of compounds found to cause cancer .
5 Funnily , this was never explained to us , nor did our neighbour ever question the matter .
6 This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there .
7 Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch .
8 Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy .
9 This was never going to work !
10 The second is never to leave on the floor a closed loop of wire or string .
11 The EC is adept at missed deadlines , and end-1992 was never carved in stone .
12 The inquiry of 1259 was never put into effect , and it has been suggested that one reason for Edward 's visit to Gascony in 1273 was the ‘ desire to proceed to this measure ’ .
13 Three are never hit by their parents .
14 These were never carved by the frail hand of man , so to speak . ’
15 But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government .
16 At New Winchelsea many of the thirty-nine squares or chequers into which the town-site had been divided in the 1280s were never built upon , but remained under grass and can be seen to this day .
17 that 's never gon na work
18 Such conjunction of the excellent and the awful is never found in any genuine neurological disease .
19 ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work .
20 As for the financial crisis they had gone through , of which she suspected Greg was the root cause , that was never spoken of at all .
21 Well they had one , but that was er , that was never changed from the time when we had complaint examiners before .
22 that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason
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