Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] was never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosetti 's admiration for Jane was never hidden . |
| 2 | The process of change was never likely to be easy . |
| 3 | The use of guardianship was never widely taken up , however , and in 1978 a total of 138 people were subject to it , of whom only 37 were mentally ill . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that Yugoslavia was more market-conscious than some other socialist countries , the development of exports was never given priority in its industrial strategy . |
| 5 | Probably , for the United Company of Undertakers was never admitted at the Guildhall , and their ‘ house ’ was none other than the business premises of Robert Legg Snr , upholder , appraiser and undertaker . |
| 6 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 7 | The point of law was never decided , since leading counsel for Mrs Whitehouse withdrew the prosecution and the Attorney General then terminated the case by invoking the nolle prosequi procedure , leaving each side claiming victory . |
| 8 | This was to give it movement and life and to ensure that the focus of attention was never blurred tor the audience . |
| 9 | The medieval class system was imposed on England by the Normans but this imposition of feudal ranks and hierarchies of allegiance was never complete and proved relatively shortlived . |
| 10 | Jansher won the remaining points in one hand , but the rallies were so keen and furious that another dramatic twist of fortunes was never out of the question . |
| 11 | Perhaps His seal of approval was never quite so firmly over this operation as it was over the contras ; perhaps that was why he needed to be importuned . |
| 12 | But the scouts were very aware that the fear of war was never far from their minds . |
| 13 | So you could tell that even though they were very happy the fear of war was never far from their minds . |
| 14 | ( A further projected volume on the doctrine of Redemption was never begun , let alone completed . ) |
| 15 | It may well be the case that the courts feel less inclined to intervene in relation to matters which are purely factual , but the juridical basis of intervention was never premised upon the need to distinguish between law and fact . |
| 16 | The amount of meat was never specified , but football fans throughout Scotland had no doubts , it must have been Caledonia 's most famous culinary repast : a pund o' mince . |
| 17 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 18 | River organisms ' ability to survive the disruption of floods was never evolved to withstand this kind of onslaught . |
| 19 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 20 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 21 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 22 | Vital information was not referred to ministers , which meant the puzzle of warnings was never put together . |
| 23 | Thus in my planning for subsequent lessons , the person in the drama who might die of cancer was never played by anyone in the group . |
| 24 | But as a mobilizing centre addressing the whole nation , the success of English was never other that partial . |
| 25 | War allowed little time for reform ; the regenerating Constitution of Bayonne was never applied to Spain ; ambitious schemes for a new system of education , for a modern code based on the Code Napoléon came to nothing . |
| 26 | It has been argued that the mass production element of Fordism was never as strongly developed in the UK as in , for instance , the United States . |
| 27 | How was it her point of view was never right ? |
| 28 | There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle , but playing the role of victim was never among my plans . |
| 29 | At the highest level , Unionists could be satisfied , for they held the most prestigious offices , but the number of jobs was never sufficient to reward the deserving aspirants . |
| 30 | The Akrokorinth dominates the Isthmus region , and it is one reason why Aratos ' home city of Sikyon just west of Corinth was never more than a second-rate power . |