Example sentences of "be never [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lesson of all this must be never to lose a ferret in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ How wonderful it must be never to doubt yourself ! ’ she jeered and turned her back on him , fixing her hair into a loose plait with hands that held a faint tremble . |
| 3 | But the Romans were never to replace the Greeks as artists . |
| 4 | ‘ It would however be quite unreasonable to expect the accidents were never to happen when the wire gauze lamps are used ; for it must be remembered , setting aside the chance of their being damaged by some of the casualties incidental to coal mining , they are to be entrusted to the management of a body of men among whom negligent individuals will be found . ’ |
| 5 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 6 | She said as how we were never to let Miss Celia know … ’ |
| 7 | They were never to return . |
| 8 | The two were in Ralph 's team and were never to split up . |
| 9 | The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) . |
| 10 | It was a position from which they were never to recover . |
| 11 | The brother and sister kissed goodbye , not knowing that they were never to see each other again . |
| 12 | They were never to see each other again . |
| 13 | They could not enter the church , were excommunicated and were never to eat meat . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 15 | They were never to become what you would call bosom friends , however , because every time Dawn went to Mum for a cuddle , Mum would sneeze and send her flying beak over tail across the room . |
| 16 | World War II had a disastrous effect and tonnages were never to rise again to the levels of earlier years . |
| 17 | The second is never to leave on the floor a closed loop of wire or string . |
| 18 | An important safety rule is never to leave your board unless it is to get into a safety boat , since your board will make it easier for rescuers to see you and will keep you afloat . |
| 19 | One solution is never to leave your home unoccupied again , but if you ca n't face life without holidays you could pay someone to be there when you are n't . |
| 20 | Similar provisions are made for CTT with this difference , that in calculating the value of the ‘ slice ‘ the property is to be deemed to produce income a such a rate as may from time to time be prescribed by the Treasury with the proviso that the value of the ’ slice ’ as so ascertained is never to exceed the value of the whole property . |
| 21 | A good way to stay out of trouble is never to see nobody . ’ |
| 22 | Another step is never to go shopping without a list , and to be strict about only buying what 's on it . ’ |
| 23 | Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent . |
| 24 | The main problem is never to allow any interpretation to harden into a fixed idea which could prevent any further evidence being given its full value or not even noticed . |
| 25 | The important decision is never to give up working for each other 's benefit . |
| 26 | In the normal course of events they will only be seen en masse after the Trooping of the Colour and on Christmas morning at Windsor ; and the wisdom passed from experienced staff to newcomers is never to put them on stage together . |
| 27 | An important point to remember when injecting solutions is never to put the holding pipette into the drop of label . |
| 28 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 29 | Well , some of us in football still have principles and one of mine is never to refuse a drink . |
| 30 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |