Example sentences of "never [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never has the Norman hole been so necessarily , or slowly , bored as on that evening when the trou Normand of Calvados between courses did its work . |
| 2 | Never has the optical ventriloquism of 3-D ‘ thrown ’ images of such uncanny solidity and colour saturation . |
| 3 | Yet the visual quality never dwarfs the human element . |
| 4 | She never uses the central heating system , only turns on a single bar of her electric fire for about half an hour and then off again for another half hour or so . |
| 5 | He may be great in the eyes of the world , with his property and wealth , but he has very few friends to attend his funeral and never achieves the only thing he cares about . |
| 6 | I know the line you are talking about , but she never says the final world , although it is pretty obvious what she means . |
| 7 | Although a bee learns a flower 's odour almost perfectly in one visit , she must make several trips to learn its colour with precision ; and even then a bee never chooses the correct colour 100 per cent of the time . |
| 8 | But he never sees the awful side of her . |
| 9 | ‘ The sad reality is one in three children never sees the other parent again . ’ |
| 10 | He never shows the slightest bit of doubt or anxiety , especially before a battle , when he knows he can win one way or another . |
| 11 | These channels have the advantage that the signal remains within the cell membrane and never enters the external medium — rather like a private line . |
| 12 | He never gives the locking-unlocking routine a miss . |
| 13 | If he disregards it because he intends to insure with another firm , for example , and never pays the original firm , the cover note will not be valid ( Taylor v Allon [ 1965 ] 1 All ER 557 ) . |
| 14 | Such a shattering of great imperial hopes was the material from which ‘ tragic ’ history could be written ( though Athenian recovery after both Egypt and Sicily was quick ) ; but Thucydides , who never explores the same theme twice , reserves the full treatment for books vi — vii . |
| 15 | The originality and importance of Freud 's sociology lies in the fact that he never leaves the human body out of account in the way that so much sociology , both before and since his work , seems to aim to do . |