Example sentences of "never [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , concludes Popper , although we can never attain to Ultimate Truth , we can and do continually get nearer to it … |
| 2 | Secondly , she never lived to middle age . |
| 3 | The civil bureaucracy as a whole was never committed to liberal democracy . |
| 4 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 5 | Alzheimer patients may never present to medical attention but die in the community either undiagnosed or cared for by relatives who have never sought medical investigation . |
| 6 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 7 | Taylor could never return to Golden Grove . |
| 8 | ‘ AFTER running my own business and being my own boss I can definitely say I will never return to full-time employment again . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's possible the Wessex may never return to full service . |
| 10 | It was a fact that her relationship with Hugh had never progressed to actual intimacy . |
| 11 | Wishart , on his visits to Hamilton Terrace , began to realise that Minton never listened to wise advice and seemed almost frightened of intelligent people . |
| 12 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 13 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 14 | But behind it all is Scott , who is self-appointed and unsalaried producer , director and spokesman for an enterprise that never occured to British sport itself . |
| 15 | But Jesus , who never responded to real unbelief , showed by answering his prayer and healing his son that he recognized it as doubt . |
| 16 | The poor woman had a nervous breakdown , and never returned to good health . |
| 17 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |