Example sentences of "never [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 2 | But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government . |
| 3 | Though never honoured by the government he was elected to several learned societies , including the Royal Irish Academy , the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and the Société de Géographie de Paris . |
| 4 | Referring to the recent bomb blasts in Belfast , Portadown and Magherafelt , Sir Patrick told reporters that he believed the IRA had stepped up its campaign of destruction because it would never win by the ballot-box and he revealed that he would be talking to senior RUC officers later today to discuss the present security situation . |
| 5 | You 've all seen , or most of you have seen the article , I was never interviewed by the press , whatsoever . |
| 6 | Perhaps the murkiest issue of all — certainly an issue never addressed by the Bush administration — is why the US , after paying Noriega $1.2 million during the 1980s , when it clearly knew that Panama — headquarters for the formidable US Army Southern Command ( USASC ) that monitors all events in Central and Latin America — was a conduit for drugs , turned so suddenly and harshly against Noriega . |
| 7 | This view was never accepted by the Commission . |
| 8 | This position , however , was never accepted by the English baronage . |
| 9 | Importantly , the lectern is never operated by the speaker who needs full concentration on the speech and presentation . |
| 10 | CDP participation in the 1970s discussions of this relationship , and notably of moves towards ‘ partnership in validation ’ , will feature in the next chapter , but it is important to note that the CDP , with an established office and secretariat , and the authority of the first in the field , was never matched by the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes in Higher Education . |
| 11 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 12 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 13 | It has been well said that " the bible is never mastered by the reader who refuses its mastery of him " . |
| 14 | It was never used by the Greeks , who divided the month into three parts of ten days each , but it was employed by the Jews ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 15 | While the politics of the time may have been sterile , it does appear to have had more than its share of colourful characters ; bogus radicals like A.P.T.James and Chanka Maharaj ; the legendary and fabulously wealthy Bhadase Maraj , who was an American-style ward boss ; Norman Tang , whose mastery of the ‘ art ’ of inscrutability made it possible for him to ‘ develop the reputation of being the only minister never accused by the Civil Service of political interference ’ . |
| 16 | Although I now believe he over-estimated the importance of the part played by observation , his constant emphasis upon the personal , the sensuous and the experiential ( a world illuminated by the child 's sensitivity and never dictated by the teacher ) gave rise to work of much greater intensity , and much more varied in imagery , than the ultimately stereotyped products of Basic Design . |
| 17 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 18 | But he was never overawed by the sheer scale of the task he undertook . |
| 19 | Many of the best ones arise out of the preparations for the show and so are never shared by the viewers . |
| 20 | In the school , efficient management of the budget is vital ; yet a great school is never characterised by the remark ‘ it has a good budget ’ . |
| 21 | The book is similarly cursory in its treatment of style ( a term that is never defined by the writer ) with not much attention given to a formal or material analysis of the work . |
| 22 | And the farmer and his wife were never troubled by the tiger again . |
| 23 | Fogarty led all the way and was never troubled by the Dunlop duo behind him . |
| 24 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 25 | The principles of credit rating are immutable , they insist ; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others . |
| 26 | So far as I know my disappearance was never discovered by the authorities . |
| 27 | The post-1945 years have produced a fundamental restructuring of the pattern of economic activity on a scale never achieved by the prewar industrialization . |
| 28 | Young Fijians find solace in ‘ one case of beer ’ — it is never drunk by the bottle — and are generous to a fault . |
| 29 | As a Fleming , Charles V was never loved by the Spaniards ; as a Spaniard , his son Philip II was alienated from the Flemings . |
| 30 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |