Example sentences of "[conj] [be] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 2 | Exposure to direct sunlight is generally to be avoided since products are seldom exposed to it , and because it can quickly produce effects that are never seen in practice . |
| 3 | In the field of ideas we rarely design transition ideas : ideas that are never meant to be permanent . |
| 4 | But Alu sequences are not transcribed by polymerase II : instead they are copied by the enzyme ( polymerase III ) that produces the specialised RNAs — ( ribosomal and transfer RNAs ) that are never translated into proteins themselves but participate in the translation of other RNAs . |
| 5 | There are secrets of the Nizari Ismailis that are never spoken of — never spoken of ! |
| 6 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 7 | It sold spare parts that were never stocked in larger shops . |
| 8 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 9 | The conversation usually turned to matters that were never mentioned in Anne 's home . |
| 10 | These are often documents that were never included in the original audit — perhaps never existed until someone saw the potential of the new system and decided to exploit it . |
| 11 | And if I 'm not mistaken , there are a number of things here that were never included in the findings of the T'ang 's committee . ’ |
| 12 | He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past . |
| 13 | As a result , the liquidator estimates the company is owed £1.6 million for machines that were never paid for . |
| 14 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 15 | The book is similarly cursory in its treatment of style ( a term that is never defined by the writer ) with not much attention given to a formal or material analysis of the work . |
| 16 | Fox hunting is a sport that is never seen in the village today , although the fox abounds in the surrounding woods and the disused pits . |
| 17 | Quality in photographs costs money but it is an outlay that is never wasted for casting directors and producers do look at volumes of Spotlight repeatedly . |
| 18 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |
| 19 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 20 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | According to Borland , Paradox 4 is between five and ten times faster than Version 3.5 — a program that was never accused of being a slouch — and on most tasks it reportedly matches or beats FoxPro , Microsoft 's swift dBase lookalike , which previously outpaced all comers . |
| 22 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |
| 23 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 24 | This list includes eight marginal species — mountain and forest mammals that occur only on the arctic fringe — and over a dozen others that seldom penetrate far and are never found in the northern zones . |
| 25 | A very few ditched in the Channel and were picked up by Air Sea Rescue , but the majority were posted ‘ missing , believed killed ’ and were never heard of again . |
| 26 | This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again . |
| 27 | Instead , most students begin with an introduction which is absolutely irrelevant , has nothing to do with what follows , and is never heard of again . |
| 28 | The DNA in the cells of any individual is ‘ burned in ’ , and is never altered during that individual 's lifetime , except by very rare random deterioration . |
| 29 | The relevant income has a foreign source and is never remitted to the United Kingdom either by the trustees or by the taxpayer . |
| 30 | But if the pain is rooted in our past and is never brought into consciousness , we will need stronger and stronger doses of the tranquillizer . |