Example sentences of "[be] never [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The families of North Tynedale in westernmost Northumberland — Charltons and Robsons , Milburns and Dodds — were never slow to lay hands on each other 's property in the lawless old days . |
| 2 | The provost and council of St. Andrews , who were never slow to seek patronage of any type , had asked Scott to obtain the placement of a supervisor in the list of candidates for a collectorship . |
| 3 | It is never possible to predict weight loss precisely . |
| 4 | It is never possible to consider taxation and expenditure together : the rules of procedure insist that they be treated separately . |
| 5 | It is never advisable to allow suppliers ' representatives to compile orders . |
| 6 | The sort of transient contact with dog dirt you mention is really very common , and it 's never possible to protect children from all the infections they might be exposed to . |
| 7 | I want to remain exceptionally thin , because then I am never likely to get fat . |
| 8 | Leaving aside those equity partners who , exceptionally , are never obliged to put cash into the firm , as mentioned in Chapter 4 , the choice lies between : ( 1 ) seeking capital contributions when the new partner joins the firm , he borrowing the amount required as necessary ; or ( 2 ) allowing the new member of the firm to buy his way in over a period out of his profit share , appropriate restrictions on his drawings being imposed as " security " for the agreed payments . |
| 9 | Boyden and Handy were more successful than Deland in spreading the idea of headhunting among the higher reaches of corporate America ; but it was never easy to convince clients of the independent and unique value of their work . |
| 10 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 11 | Kendall was never afraid to spend money , signing Adrian Heath for a then club record of £800,000 from Stoke , but many of his best buys came from the lower divisions : Neville Southall from Bury , Derek Mountfield from Tranmere and Bolton 's Peter Reid . |
| 12 | Kendall was never afraid to spend money , signing Adrian Heath for a then club record of £800,000 from Stoke , but many of his best buys came from the lower divisions : Neville Southall from Bury , Derek Mountfield from Tranmere and Bolton 's Peter Reid . |
| 13 | Richard was never afraid to tell Emlyn the truth . |
| 14 | Given the structure of the PGCE week at the time , I was never able to involve students in a sequence of lessons with one class over a time span exceeding two days . |
| 15 | He was never able to bear uncertainty . |
| 16 | For all the popularity of the policy itself , de Gaulle was never able to convince voters that international issues were more pressing than domestic ones . |