Example sentences of "never be [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tap proportioners should never be fitted to taps used to supply drinking or cooking water . |
| 2 | Points should never be worshipped to excess , and the unflagging zeal of bibliographical mudlarkers prodding for new ones should be mistrusted or at least treated with caution . |
| 3 | But somebody has been sent to prison , they are the sort of person who you would think of , should never be sent to prison , somebody who has diddled his firm out of a couple of thousand . |
| 4 | This test should never be applied to silk rugs , as creasing can damage the fibres . |
| 5 | Mains-voltage cable should not be run on the surface of the ground and should never be attached to fences — as these can be easily blown down . |
| 6 | They now hope that Danish or British opposition will scuttle the Maastricht treaty , because they know that the economic austerity required by ‘ convergence ’ will be unpopular — and they , Italy 's least popular politicians , will never be returned to power . |
| 7 | One mother said she believed their sons ' kidnappers will never be brought to justice because ‘ justice when imparted to the poor is only in the form of punishment ’ . |
| 8 | THE husband of a woman murdered as she sunbathed on a South African beach spoke of his fears last night that her killer may never be brought to justice . |
| 9 | The principle of continuity was a precondition for science ; we must have faith that we shall never be brought to confusion by inexplicable irregularities . |
| 10 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |