Example sentences of "[verb] never be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 2 | Although rural housing , as we shall see later in this chapter , has never been in plentiful supply , the newcomers provide an easy scapegoat for the otherwise ‘ hidden hand ’ of the housing market . |
| 3 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 4 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 5 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 6 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 7 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 9 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |
| 10 | I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world . |
| 11 | I 've never been into that scene . ’ |
| 12 | Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic . |
| 13 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |
| 14 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 15 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 16 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |
| 17 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 18 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 19 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 20 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 21 | He 's never been to National Tyres . |
| 22 | See it 's never been off that heating . |
| 23 | That 's never been in any doubt — particularly to him . |
| 24 | After all , it 's not everyone who has a private view of paintings worth £100,000 — a lot of money in those pre-war , pre-inflation days — but which have never been on public view . |
| 25 | I have never been to this town before , but I do not think she is a typical resident of Bournemouth . |
| 26 | Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction . |
| 27 | ‘ I have never been in rural ministry , ’ Daniel said . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 29 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 30 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |