Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Grammar , secondary modern and technical schools in England and Wales ( and , with different terminology , in Scotland and Northern Ireland — see below ) form what is called the tripartite system , though in reality technical schools have never existed in large numbers .
2 Hardly surprisingly , given the size of the market , most of these texts have never gone beyond their first editions .
3 Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam .
4 The customers reply never mind about lunch , they will drink a carafe of wine and perhaps Madame has some bread and sausage ?
5 One might take the views of the promoters of a Bill as an indication of the intention of Parliament but any view the promoters may have about the questions which later come before the court will not often appear in Hansard and often those questions have never occurred to the promoters .
6 The teams have never met before and LSH take the opportunity to add Neil James to their 18 man squad .
7 In many ways families have never recovered from the earlier recession of the 1980s , let alone the current recession .
8 Cargill boasts in its company brochure that ‘ some of our best customers have never heard of us ’ ( Morgan , 1979 , p. 4 ) .
9 Coalitions have never worked in India , which is why the country has always returned to the comforting but damaging embrace of Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family .
10 Rebellions have never succeeded in Ireland , ’ Father Poole said , ‘ and yet they are always attempted .
11 Rebellions have never succeeded in Ireland ; always they have ended in butchery and defeat .
12 Most Americans have never heard of a ‘ Chartered Accountant ’ and possession of the US qualification would be a pre-requisite for eligibility for almost any accounting position .
13 Markets have never depended on the existence of detailed information about costs and outcomes : [ …
14 Geordies and tykes have never got on particularly well — they are always friendly to one another , but they are distinct groups .
15 The children learn never to take for granted a horse 's temper , ’ says Mr Tribe .
16 The result , he argues , is that many middle class children have never progressed beyond the ‘ pre-Oedipal phase ’ .
17 A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’
18 It is perhaps not surprising that estimates of the gains and losses to the UK from EC membership appear to have dried up , and the other member states have never engaged in large-scale studies to assess the costs and benefits of membership of the CU .
19 Mr Clinton 's campaign promises were dropping like autumn leaves , he charged in a newspaper editorial , while ‘ taxes have never succeeded in promoting economic growth . ’
20 The workforce at Swan Hunters have never asked for any special privileges , they 've always asked for a fair deal on a level playing field .
21 ‘ My political views have never changed in the past and will not change in the future , ’ he said soon after court officials ordered his early release from a Beijing prison .
22 The churches have never objected to the existence of the vocational schools since their establishment in the early 1930s .
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