Example sentences of "never to be " in BNC.

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1 These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization .
2 It was winter , and something of its icy strains entered the young boy 's soul , never to be forgotten .
3 He left a gate open and Mr Cod wandered off , never to be seen again .
4 And yet what does it mean to understand the formulations of someone for whom , on the face of it , final understanding is impossible , or never to be fully achieved ?
5 The team must never to be stretched and when we press forward that also means the goalkeeper .
6 On the Tuesday Ramsey called on his former best man Eric Abbott in London , who had urged him never to be a bishop in England .
7 Westland was a unique situation , hopefully never to be repeated .
8 But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised .
9 The barman usually called Jack by his Christian name and Jack knew ‘ Mr Pertwee ’ was a mark never to be repeated , of the respect due to a bridegroom .
10 Throughout there was a joyless kind of determination never to be proved wrong .
11 The line of descent may be further restricted by making the estate an estate in tail-male , i.e. one descendible only to males and only in the male line , or conceivably ( though in practice this appears never to be done ) in tall-female descendible only to and through females .
12 He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’
13 Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ?
14 A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow .
15 This threat was never to be fulfilled , for Godfred was conveniently murdered , and his successor and nephew , Hemming , made peace with the Franks .
16 It was a perfect holiday and one never to be forgotten .
17 Bill Pedler was made an Honorary Member but was never to be quite the force he was prewar .
18 The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk .
19 It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated .
20 He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied .
21 It used to display a fine series of Flemish tapestries but these were ‘ gifted ’ to von Ribbentrop , Hitler 's foreign affairs advisor , never to be seen again .
22 I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again .
23 The wireless truck and its crew , however , had totally disappeared , never to be seen again .
24 These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s .
25 I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it .
26 Later in life , Lewis and his father drifted apart , never to be reconciled .
27 Very occasionally , they can be found on the eyelashes and eyebrows , but they are said never to be found higher than that .
28 Both band and company quietly let the thing slip away , never to be mentioned again .
29 Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure .
30 It was a debt that was never to be repaid by the politicians or the generals of both sides , no matter how many red poppies were later bought or how many ‘ Last Posts ’ were sounded on dismal anniversaries .
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