Example sentences of "[num] [conj] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 2 | Jackson was virtually forced out of the game at the age of 26 and never played professionally again , and Cheyne was driven overseas to the French club Nimes . |
| 3 | The text was based on a draft treaty between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union initialled in October 1991 but never signed [ see pp. 38540-41 ] . |
| 4 | In Abbeville is the remarkable classic of flamboyant , S. Wulfram , largely built 1488–1534 but never finished ( 516 ) . |
| 5 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 6 | His was a similar case to that of Emmet O'Rafferty who was chosen for Ireland in the late seventies but never played . |
| 7 | After a dispute with the Chinese authorities Hart left China on leave in 1908 and never returned , although he remained titular head of the Customs Service until his death in 1911 . |
| 8 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 9 | He started working on a market stall selling records in his home town of Nelson , Lancashire in 1961 and never looked back . |
| 10 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 11 | This strategy revived the division-project that Charlemagne had adopted in 806 but never implemented . |
| 12 | Mundesley in Norfolk was intended to be a new resort town in 1900 but never succeeded . |
| 13 | Johnny Manetta arrived on a scooter in the Sixties and never left . |
| 14 | Gardeners from the National Trust at Petworth Park , Sussex , have used Capability Brown 's original designs to plant a four-acre plot for which Brown had sketched out a plan in 1750 but never carried out . |