Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] never [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ? |
| 2 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 3 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 4 | This will help us to get beyond the phase of advocacy of " tolerance " which has never been adequate on its own . |
| 5 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 6 | A woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as nulligravida ; a woman pregnant first time as primigravida , and at later pregnancies as multigravida ( see pregnancy order ) . |
| 7 | The act of prostitution itself has never been illegal . |
| 8 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 9 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 10 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 11 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 12 | ‘ She 's never been married , damn you ! ’ |
| 13 | She 's never been involved with another woman ! ’ |
| 14 | She 's never been able to afford the upkeep of it . |
| 15 | A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel . |
| 16 | In fact there has never been two-shift working at Kalmar and , because of the downturn in the car market after the 1973 oil price rise , production has rarely reached 30,000 per year at that plant . |
| 17 | But there has never been self-doubt . |
| 18 | Shortly , Colinetta claims that she herself has never been envious nor has she spread scandal , though evidently others behave in this way . |
| 19 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 20 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 21 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 22 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 23 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 24 | For he has never been able to sleep much and talks with me late into the night . |
| 25 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 26 | He has never been enthusiastic about it , regarding the growing grassroots demand for proportional representation as a distraction from the main issues facing the party , but aides insist he now has an open mind about the outcome of the review . |
| 27 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 28 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |
| 29 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 30 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |