Example sentences of "never [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 2 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 3 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 4 | That role made possible his nomination ; he was elected as an outsider and , by his own admission , he never ceased being one whilst in office . |
| 5 | But there never has been anything as sensible as a planned , rolling programme of electrification . |
| 6 | The Chancellor said the Conservative Party ‘ never has been and never will be the party of devaluation ’ , and underlined the ‘ paramount need ’ to fight inflation . |
| 7 | But the Conservative Party never has been , and never will be , the party of devaluation . |
| 8 | But in a clear attempt to dispel City uncertainty over the pound , Mr Lawson restated his commitment to exchange rate stability , saying : ‘ The Conservative Party never has been , and never will be , the party of devaluation . ’ |
| 9 | Saving the world will not be cheap , but , then , security never has been cheap . |
| 10 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 11 | There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems . |
| 12 | There is not and never has been a ‘ right ’ to demonstrate . |
| 13 | There is not , and probably never has been , agreement in this country on the aims , objectives , content and processes of education . |
| 14 | He 's not a hundred percent , Douglas , never has been , do you take my drift . |
| 15 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 16 | ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ... |
| 17 | I repeat that it is not , and never has been , our policy to encourage local authorities or education authorities to promote homosexuality ... |
| 18 | But Madonna is n't and never has been a musician . |
| 19 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 20 | Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’ |
| 21 | She 's no good , and never has been . ’ |
| 22 | But if we begin with the assumption , say , that there is at least one star in the heavens that never has been , or ever will be , discovered or talked about , then evidently no meaningful let alone true singular proposition can be produced in support of such an assumption , for no such object can be named . |
| 23 | ‘ Mine never has been at a Channel port . |
| 24 | ‘ A little to the west of the house is an old , ruinous chapel , unroofed , which never has been very curious . |
| 25 | Thirdly , the application of the rules of natural justice , prior to the introduction of fairness , was not and never has been uniform in its operation . |
| 26 | ‘ No , dammit , and it never has been . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What I want is not and never has been important . |
| 28 | THERE never has been , and never will be , a champion golfer who does not have fire in his belly . |
| 29 | She never has been ! ’ |
| 30 | The Board 's area general manager , Tom Frawley , commented : ‘ There never has been any intention to close accident and emergency and I feel the rumours have been damaging to the public 's confidence in the hospital and to the morale of staff ’ |