Example sentences of "never the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But without Pearce there was never the pace in a Forest side , who looked distinctly foot-weary , to test Schmeichel . |
| 2 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 3 | ‘ The police arrest us for breach of the peace for horn blowing , but never the huntsmen for doing the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | Gutiérez is never the servant of his own brilliant technique . |
| 5 | However , there are still quite a few rather heavily marked White Parks and sometimes a completely black calf is thrown , which is never the case with the pure Chillinghams . |
| 6 | This is almost never the case with substances such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine . |
| 7 | Key statements in many LEA policy documents show a concern for ‘ harmony ’ and ‘ stability ’ , which is never the case in sex equality policies or statements on girls ' education . |
| 8 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 9 | He does say that the word ‘ universal ’ is ‘ never the name of any thing existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I was never the centre of attention , like you . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , life had come , but not as they had dreamed it , as the great liberator from restraint and narrowness , but rather as the great enemy , with which he had to fight , fight as he was still fighting today and must fight until the end , with never the hope of victory ! |
| 12 | Indeed , the very idea of resistance is generally excluded from social-control theories , because the deviant group is perceived to be powerless , forever the object of someone else 's control , never the subject of its own thoughts and actions . |
| 13 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 14 | Apolitical and never the holder of any union office , Kirkland had 36 years as a Glasgow ambulanceman before he retired last year . |
| 15 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 16 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately the innocents get hurt , never the criminals behind the scenes . |
| 18 | This was never the intention of the RMI . |
| 19 | It is important , however , not to read into this recommendation more than was intended for , as will become clear , it was never the intention of either the Wolfenden Committee or those who were eventually successful in their campaign to incorporate the majority of its proposals in the criminal law , to remove the stigma from homosexuality . |
| 20 | Island Records , never the exploiters of Marley 's music some believe ( Lee Parry once claimed on quickly deleted vinyl that the company ‘ Kill Bob Marley and take away his royalties ’ ) , have recently issued the ‘ Talkin' Blues ’ album of out-takes , and last year released several Marley albums afresh on tape and CD . |
| 21 | A claim was made against a firm of accountants who were never the auditors of B. & C. and the order was sought so that unspecified claims could be investigated . |
| 22 | I was never the focus of an actual focused ill-wishing , merely a bit part player in Bernard 's drama , but look what happened to me ! |
| 23 | As Ayer said , ‘ what is required to verify a statement about a material thing is never the occurrence of precisely this or precisely that sense-content , but only the occurrence of one or other of the sense-contents that fall within a fairly indefinite range ’ ( Ayer , 1946 , p. 12 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ That was never the point of the exercise , was it ? ’ she asked quietly . |
| 25 | A few activists might have seen it as more than that , but that was never the view of the General Council . |
| 26 | Insofar as the ‘ social gospel ’ aimed at a transformation of society in lieu of a conversion of sinners it was never the view of the vast majority of Nonconformist ministers . |
| 27 | I had always argued against sit-ins and ‘ direct action ’ against campus property as it was always the poor bloody infantry — the cleaners , maintenance men and secretaries — who got the rough end of the pineapple , never the generals in command . |
| 28 | It was never the sort of thing you thought about when you were young , when you were — or thought you were — in love , and all the future shone with promise . |