Example sentences of "never the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canadian pacific trains are freight trains , eh ? , and VIA trains carry passengers , and never the two shall mix . |
| 2 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 3 | He was never the Prime |
| 4 | Charm was never the strong suit of the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) — indeed , I think that he is wearing his only suit . |
| 5 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 6 | You can call it a delayed action , if you like , but it is never the former . |
| 7 | Only after he had left is he free , in the absence of express restraint , to make use of the latter though never the former . |
| 8 | So law was never the exclusive possession of the ruling class ; rather it provided ‘ an arena for class struggle , within which alternative notions of law were fought out ’ ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) . |
| 9 | Barbara , never the subtlest of people , was trying very hard to change the subject . |
| 10 | Wolverton meant railways , and , earlier in our industrial past , canals and narrow-boats : but never the Spanish Main ! |
| 11 | But in Birmingham the railways were never the principal means of transport for the urban commuter . |
| 12 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 13 | Unix System Labs president , Roel Pieper , said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 14 | But they are never the four that I know did actually make it on 11 June 1940 . |
| 15 | To advocates of the ‘ resolute approach ’ , crime is simply a choice to do wrong ; it is never the squalid last gasp of the outsider . |
| 16 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 17 | A nice strategy is defined as one that is never the first to defect . |
| 18 | Tit for Tat , as we have seen , is ‘ nice ’ , meaning never the first to defect , and ‘ forgiving ’ , meaning that it has a short memory for past misdeeds . |
| 19 | We are never the first . |
| 20 | They could eventually contradict the ‘ central dogma ’ that changes in dna flow into the protein molecules they code for , but never the other way round . |
| 21 | That country was held fast in the grip of a most oppressive regime and there was never the remotest possibility that anyone could come . |
| 22 | It 's never the endless toast and tea , beans , bread and chips which are the staples of poor people 's diets . |
| 23 | A few boys asked her out but never the right ones , never the ones she wanted to ask her , and Sally began to wonder how two people ever came to be in love with one another at the same time . |
| 24 | But it must be added that this meaning is never the right one : superstructures are faulty acts which have ‘ made it ’ socially . |
| 25 | But they 're never the right size for that it wants . |
| 26 | The Christian communicator is never the primary source of the message in the sense that one is not the originator of that which one is seeking to convey . |
| 27 | But there 's never the sure intuition that lies between women , welds them together . |
| 28 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 29 | This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern . |
| 30 | Never , never the perfect design by the architect . |