Example sentences of "it [be] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's never intended to be a substitute or a replacement for your statutory rights . |
| 2 | With Paul it 's never going to be simple . |
| 3 | It 's never spoken in this house . |
| 4 | And I we just feel that can not go along thinking it 's never gon na happen to you . |
| 5 | So let's drive on the road taking a calculated risk , as opposed to sort of just driving along hoping it 's never gon na happen to you and I . |
| 6 | Well the thing is Dianne and and Charles , they have n't known it , it 's never worked from day one |
| 7 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 8 | It is never shrouded by clouds , it does not disappear at night nor does it move . |
| 9 | It is never completed without considerable discussion and several rewrites . |
| 10 | It is a joy they 're missing , but it is never revealed to them . |
| 11 | Young Fijians find solace in ‘ one case of beer ’ — it is never drunk by the bottle — and are generous to a fault . |
| 12 | Crosby said : ‘ It is never going to be easy because the FA Cup final is a big thing for everyone concerned . |
| 13 | This practice is in marked contrast to business organizations where , although the budget is of importance , it is never included in the published financial statements proper ; indeed , it would be unusual for it to appear publicly at all . |
| 14 | It refuses simple definitions and simplistic judgements ; it is never seduced by its subject ; it excuses and romanticises little . |
| 15 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was never explained to them . |
| 17 | For many Czechs the failure of the Republic was deeply demoralising , for it was never contested in any serious way . |
| 18 | It was never realised as such , of course , and the conflict for supremacy between popes and kings took centuries to resolve . |
| 19 | It was never locked before 9 P.M. It was that night . |
| 20 | And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to . |
| 21 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 22 | It was never treated as a political power . |
| 23 | Marx 's own theory of the class struggle was hardly more than sketched , in occasional passages which are scattered throughout his writings , and it was never presented in a systematic way . |
| 24 | Such a clause , if invoked , would obviously encourage a country to reduce its surplus , but it was never called into effect . |
| 25 | The main attempt to tackle the issue of bombing , the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare , is an admirable and detailed interpretation of customary rules and general principles of the laws of war , but it was never adopted by states in legally binding form — partly because of the belief , widely held in the aftermath of the First World War that the important thing was to prevent war altogether , rather than to devise rules for how it might be conducted . |
| 26 | Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction ; where it was never meant to be . |
| 27 | It was always an ornament , it was never meant to be used as an every day kettle . |
| 28 | When asked about the F-factor , she said : ‘ I think it was hyped up into something that it was never meant to be . |
| 29 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
| 30 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |