Example sentences of "it never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together , they represent a considerable problem for speech recognition systems : a given word may be uttered in a number of ways such that it never exactly matches the examples with which the system was trained . |
| 2 | It never exactly whistles while it works — if anything , it wheezes in its upper reaches — but its torquey character and outright power endow the Sierra with a fleet turn of foot , particularly in the lower gears . |
| 3 | All the more unfortunate does this become in the presence of narrow majorities , each representing a minority of the electorate , sometimes a small minority , and when at least one of the parties believes that the prerogatives and rights conferred by electoral victory , however narrow , not merely entitle but compel it to impose on the helpless but unorganized majority irreversible changes for which it never consciously voted and to which most of its members are opposed . |
| 4 | The nationalist opposition had split into competing factions in the years before the election , and it never effectively challenged Sobhuza 's rule thereafter . |
| 5 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 6 | It never again recovered its former glory . |
| 7 | In an emergency , it will take a short cut and plunge across a patch of land that it never normally enters in order to reach the safely of a bolt-hole . |
| 8 | Everybody just wants to do what they should be doing whereas with my job it never even thought about it did we ? |
| 9 | It never even saw Christ . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It never even entered my mind . ’ |
| 11 | Going up to Scotland no one would know her so she could travel third but coming back , if the young man travelled with her — it never even entered her head that she would n't meet one — it could be embarrassing . |
| 12 | But it never ever alters . |
| 13 | It must be difficult , like I said I was lucky in the respect that I had , it never ever appealed to , to the minute I got pregnant , from the minute . |
| 14 | There are certain spells that can prevent the life departing from a body , be it never so abused , and — I see by your face that understanding dawns ? ’ |
| 15 | As Hunter says , ‘ his mind had received a shock from which it never fully recovered ’ . |
| 16 | The 25,000 bombs which fell on London 's dockland during the Second World War dealt a devastating blow to a thriving industrial community from which it never fully recovered . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he was thankful to God that in all his life he was never overcome by depression , and that , despite his almost continual pain , it never seriously hindered him in his work , his study or his preaching . |
| 18 | It never actually gets there . |
| 19 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 20 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |
| 21 | It never once occurred to you that you might be an ignorant , selfish , lousy lover . |
| 22 | ‘ Yeah , but it never really came into play , although it 's a nice idea and it looks good . |
| 23 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 24 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 25 | Everybody tries desperately to have a good time , but it never really happens . |
| 26 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 27 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 28 | About daily life in the first established , Lewes , surprisingly little has remained ; it never really achieved the independence many other similar towns acquired , remaining essentially a manorial borough of its lords , the de Warennes , for most of the middle ages . |
| 29 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 30 | As far as methodology in East German art history is concerned , take for example their concept ‘ Kunstverhältnisse ’ , which is what we refer to as ‘ the sociology of art ’ : I do not feel that even this made much progress it never really became an established discipline . |