Example sentences of "is never [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its musical version , My Fair Lady , is never off the stage . |
| 2 | TEDDY Taylor is never off the television these days . |
| 3 | Mass anxiety is never without political consequences , and in a totalitarian society there is no more radical emotion than disbelief . |
| 4 | By eliminating ploughing , soil disturbance is kept to a minimum and wind erosion is reduced by the fact that the soil is never without either a crop cover or a binding layer of roots . |
| 5 | ‘ The air is never of one self-colour only , but is often of two colours , with a little of the third . ’ |
| 6 | As for the playing , it has to be said that this is never of the very highest order , but considering the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of the music , much of the artistry continues to amaze . |
| 7 | At such a moment God is never to be forgotten . |
| 8 | The objective , however , is never to left our anger blow up to that extent . |
| 9 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , ’ his opening paragraph continues , ‘ and I have no doubt that my opening proposition , whatever I may say to explain and justify it , will be adduced in reinforcement of their strictures , ’ adding bitterly that ‘ the only way to escape misrepresentation is never to … say anything . ’ |
| 10 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 11 | Futures punters know they are playing with fire which is why some ask not to be rung at home , and the name of the commodities firm is never to be given to anyone who answers the office phone . |
| 12 | ‘ And I think the sufficiency of the sentence is never to be called in question , nor any inquiry to be made here into the reasons of the deprivation . |
| 13 | The purpose of an argument is never to be objective . |
| 14 | It is never to be compared to the Pain de Gonesse , and other delicious varieties to be met with in Paris . |
| 15 | Our slimmer is never above 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) , spends most days at 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) , and goes as low as 9 st O lb ( 57.2 kg ) . |
| 16 | He must act within the law : he is never above it . |
| 17 | The number of ‘ unemployed ’ is never on its own an adequate description of the forms of economic restructuring that are occurring , even when such figures are calculated with integrity . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 19 | His lyricism is never at the expense of verbal clarity or , more importantly , verbal meaning , and he is able to establish a mood at once by his choice of tone-colour . |
| 20 | ‘ My boy , ’ said the naval captain father , ‘ a sailor is never at a loss ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Finn Arnason holds Halland for King Svein , but his sight is worse , and he is never at court , although he can still fight on shipboard and the young men respect him . |
| 22 | ‘ Our Elsie ’ Streek is never at a loss for fund-raising ideas . |
| 23 | The first is that drama is never about oneself ; it is always concerned with something outside oneself . |
| 24 | A bird in the hand is never worth an infinite number of birds in the bush . |
| 25 | It might not happen , but it is never worth taking a chance . |
| 26 | Initially it appears as an act of balance , with vigorous debate between those who think that censorship is never worth it , and those for whom pornography is so dangerous that censorship is not too high a price at all . |
| 27 | LUNCHTIME at the Groucho Club is never like this . |
| 28 | What is never in doubt is the Russian poet 's belief that he has an audience to address , and one , moreover , that is ready and willing to listen . |
| 29 | The answer is never in doubt , and neatly topical in a week when American voters showed their preference for small-town boys over city slickers . |
| 30 | According to the theory , one is never in a position to compare them . |