Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction ; where it was never meant to be . |
| 2 | The prosperity of Cadiz , based on the American trade , was to decline sharply in the nineteenth century and allow Barcelona to take over its position as the exemplar of middle-class civilization , although it was never to replace the Andalusian towns as nurseries of liberal politicians . |
| 3 | Although it was never stated so baldly , one implication of the Samuelson-Solow and Lipsey approach is that , since is the target rate of unemployment , it is , in essence , the full employment rate of unemployment : it is that unemployment rate which the authorities regard as attainable , sustainable and , taking the good with the bad , ‘ correct ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God . |
| 5 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 6 | Why not just ignore the decision and act as if it was never made ? |
| 7 | It must be twisted or summat cos it 's never done it before when I 've been in with the you know , to go bingo . |
| 8 | I mean I 'm sure it 's the same claw cos it 's never grown back you see , when he 's had it cut off but what the vet was hoping was that the claw would grow back and the the top of of the tissue , see what I mean ? |
| 9 | And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to . |
| 10 | Sometimes called Scotland 's Disgrace , because it was never finished for lack of funds , this fragment of a memorial to the fallen in the Napoleonic War was intended to be a facsimile of the parthenon . |
| 11 | It 's hardly a policy to say that they 're stating we 're intending to return the Trust to N H S when it 's never left the N H S in the first place . |
| 12 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 13 | Astell 's college , though it was never established , became a landmark in feminist thinking of the period |
| 14 | Thomas Cook 's achievement was , as The Times said in his obituary , to ‘ organise travel as it was never organised before ’ . |
| 15 | For many Czechs the failure of the Republic was deeply demoralising , for it was never contested in any serious way . |
| 16 | For it was never found . |