Example sentences of "was never [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never a man to be deprived of the sun and the soft wind in his face . |
| 2 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 3 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 4 | ‘ He was never a progressive musician , ’ recalls pianist Gerry Moore , who in contrast always was , ‘ but he had the most beautiful tone . |
| 5 | I may sing like Marcel Marceau , but it was never a style . |
| 6 | In our case , it was never a simple matter of trust , once having been won , being taken for granted , as the textbooks suggest . |
| 7 | There was never a big overnight change . |
| 8 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 9 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 10 | There was never a hint of a blow . |
| 11 | The original XR 's gearbox was never a strong point . |
| 12 | Certain teams did become very loosely identified with Catholic or Protestant support in Liverpool and Manchester , but this was never a prominent feature of English football or a significant source of violence . |
| 13 | It was never a formal club with minutes , or apologies for absence , or any ‘ business ’ or recognizable membership . |
| 14 | Although he was never a political defector , he said he probably would not have come back before President Gorbachev launched his perestroika policy . |
| 15 | But I was never a Communist . |
| 16 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 17 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 18 | Tucked into cosy woodland near the silver birchy Surrey border , Fouracre ( which was never a four-acre site , but started as fifty ) is a supremely satisfactory house . |
| 19 | The partnership between the two was never a comfortable one — as personalities they were chalk and cheese — but politically it was immensely successful and entirely crucial to the Government up to 1983 . |
| 20 | She is usually shown wearing a religious habit ( although she was never a nun ) and either surrounded by or wearing garlands of roses . |
| 21 | ‘ She had no secrets , ’ Isabel Lavender reproved her sister , ‘ she was never a secretive person . |
| 22 | He was never a favourite character of mine , as I do not approve of the British partition and subsequent desertion of India , mismanaged by Mountbatten against a horrific background of massacres . |
| 23 | It was never a case of merely technical facility integrated to near perfection . |
| 24 | The lineage was never a group without internal distinctions of wealth , but they had become much greater than ever before . |
| 25 | Beecher , he found , could not equal Spurgeon in oratorical powers and , of course , Spurgeon was never a political parson . |
| 26 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 27 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 28 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 29 | In effect a miscarriage of a pregnancy that was never a real pregnancy . |
| 30 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |