Example sentences of "never [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been accused of many things , but never of being a papal legate . |
| 2 | Soldiers never like being asked to do somebody else 's dirty work , especially if they have been called off leave to do it , and are likely to be accused of strike breaking in the process . |
| 3 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 4 | These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization . |
| 5 | It was winter , and something of its icy strains entered the young boy 's soul , never to be forgotten . |
| 6 | He left a gate open and Mr Cod wandered off , never to be seen again . |
| 7 | And yet what does it mean to understand the formulations of someone for whom , on the face of it , final understanding is impossible , or never to be fully achieved ? |
| 8 | The team must never to be stretched and when we press forward that also means the goalkeeper . |
| 9 | On the Tuesday Ramsey called on his former best man Eric Abbott in London , who had urged him never to be a bishop in England . |
| 10 | Westland was a unique situation , hopefully never to be repeated . |
| 11 | But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised . |
| 12 | The barman usually called Jack by his Christian name and Jack knew ‘ Mr Pertwee ’ was a mark never to be repeated , of the respect due to a bridegroom . |
| 13 | Throughout there was a joyless kind of determination never to be proved wrong . |
| 14 | The line of descent may be further restricted by making the estate an estate in tail-male , i.e. one descendible only to males and only in the male line , or conceivably ( though in practice this appears never to be done ) in tall-female descendible only to and through females . |
| 15 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 16 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 17 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 18 | This threat was never to be fulfilled , for Godfred was conveniently murdered , and his successor and nephew , Hemming , made peace with the Franks . |
| 19 | It was a perfect holiday and one never to be forgotten . |
| 20 | Bill Pedler was made an Honorary Member but was never to be quite the force he was prewar . |
| 21 | The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk . |
| 22 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 23 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 24 | It used to display a fine series of Flemish tapestries but these were ‘ gifted ’ to von Ribbentrop , Hitler 's foreign affairs advisor , never to be seen again . |
| 25 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 26 | The wireless truck and its crew , however , had totally disappeared , never to be seen again . |
| 27 | These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s . |
| 28 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 29 | Later in life , Lewis and his father drifted apart , never to be reconciled . |
| 30 | Very occasionally , they can be found on the eyelashes and eyebrows , but they are said never to be found higher than that . |