Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 2 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 3 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | It was never treated as a political power . |
| 5 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 6 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 7 | As we have already mentioned , for this reason , shelter sheds and troughs are never placed in the very corners of paddocks or yards . |
| 8 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 9 | Tarkovsky : although Italian-funded , his films never pandered to the vacuous pan-European market |
| 10 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 11 | Well I do n't , I have never heard of a local group that makes money out of this selling . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never heard of an easy game against Arsenal and all matches at this stage are tough ones , ’ said Canaries ' manager Mike Walker . |
| 13 | The new one-man buses which are everywhere these days are not only designed by maniacs who 've never heard of the aged or disabled , but you ca n't get on one without flashing the cash . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 'm certainly wishing I 'd never heard of the wretched letters , that 's for sure ! ’ she exclaimed , recovering her spirit . |
| 15 | I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked . |
| 16 | She never got to the expensive school . |
| 17 | The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star , a team who have never won a trophy and , until this year , never got past the second round of junior soccer 's top competition . |
| 18 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 19 | Praise was never given to an individual child but only when the entire class did well . |
| 20 | This evidence was available to the chief veterinary officer last December but never given to the Select Committee . |
| 21 | One shaikh said he had never intervened in a notorious internal quarrel because ‘ they would say I was a shaikh ’ . |
| 22 | Some things never change at a Labour conference . |
| 23 | People never change for the better by being hated , judged and condemned . |
| 24 | Eastern never recovered from a crippling strike in 1989 and now faces liquidation . |
| 25 | Prestwick 's David Gourlay , jun , and Robert McCulloch never recovered from a disastrous start against the Welsh pair of Stephen Rees and John Price who held a 15-0 six-end lead and went on to win 28-11 . |
| 26 | Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 . |
| 27 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 28 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 29 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |