Example sentences of "was never [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to give it movement and life and to ensure that the focus of attention was never blurred tor the audience . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that Yugoslavia was more market-conscious than some other socialist countries , the development of exports was never given priority in its industrial strategy . |
| 3 | Typically he was never given acknowledgement for his part in its creation . |
| 4 | In 1989 the White Paper on health , Working for Patients , was produced by a review team , the exact membership of which was never made public . |
| 5 | Prepared in 1988 to assess if the site was suitable for a pressurised water reactor ( PWR ) , the study was never made public . |
| 6 | At school he was called Nigel , or sometimes ‘ N.O. ’ , or occasionally ‘ Russ ’ , but Nigel Oliver Russell was never called Oliver . |
| 7 | A plot or land was reckoned the normal basis of the feudal contract , and this notion was never lost sight of , however common the domestic knight and the vassal who held a money fief might become ( see pp. 184–5 ) . |
| 8 | When the Royal Society awarded Mendeleyev and Lothar Meyer its Davy medal for the discovery of the periodic law , Newlands renewed his campaign ; he eventually received the Davy medal in 1887 , but was never elected FRS . |
| 9 | It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation . |
| 10 | Nauru was never paid $16m or any other compensation by Australia . |