Example sentences of "was never the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre-Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . |
| 2 | Bira was never the same when he drove without Chula . ’ |
| 3 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 4 | A few activists might have seen it as more than that , but that was never the view of the General Council . |
| 5 | Mum Carol encouraged all of her children to express themselves but was never the ‘ pushy showbiz mum ’ . |
| 6 | Insofar as the ‘ social gospel ’ aimed at a transformation of society in lieu of a conversion of sinners it was never the view of the vast majority of Nonconformist ministers . |
| 7 | Broke your mother 's heart they tell me , she was never the same after . ’ |
| 8 | He was never the same player again , still in with a chance going into the last round but then fading away with a 75 . |
| 9 | But without Pearce there was never the pace in a Forest side , who looked distinctly foot-weary , to test Schmeichel . |
| 10 | OVERPOWERING the golf course was never the game plan of John and Richard Piggott from West Middlesex , who won the Father and Son final on the 15th green at West Hill yesterday . |
| 11 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 12 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 13 | With Troon built horse-shoe shaped , the wind was never the same . |
| 14 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 15 | This was never the intention of the RMI . |
| 16 | All I can say , in mitigation , was that to my knowledge I was never the one to start trouble . |
| 17 | Whatever , he was never the same person again , and seemed to care less and less about the band and the music until he announced , mid-tour in 1970 , that he was leaving . |
| 18 | Of course , I 'm well aware that this was never the point and that posing potential is at maximum only when the guitar is strapped on and slung low . |
| 19 | While life continued normally on the surface , it was never the same . |
| 20 | Although for a while the new venture flourished , far outstripping its neighbour , Rye , it was never the success its royal founder had hoped . |
| 21 | That country was held fast in the grip of a most oppressive regime and there was never the remotest possibility that anyone could come . |
| 22 | ‘ I was never the centre of attention , like you . ’ |
| 23 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 24 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 25 | Being famous was never the point . |
| 26 | This was never the case and in the current working world it is even less so because of developing technology which has its impact on almost all jobs and also on the social context of work . |
| 27 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 28 | It is important , however , not to read into this recommendation more than was intended for , as will become clear , it was never the intention of either the Wolfenden Committee or those who were eventually successful in their campaign to incorporate the majority of its proposals in the criminal law , to remove the stigma from homosexuality . |
| 29 | Lawenham was never the same without him ; by 1568 it paid only half as much tax as Long Melford , compared with two-and-a-half times as much in 1524 , and its place had been usurped by Hadleigh , which had paid only three-fifths of Lavenham 's quota in 1524 , yet now ranked as the third town in Suffolk after Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich . |
| 30 | Since it was never the intention that the project should be run as an open competition for " challenge funding " , details of the procedures for participation and selection were never publicised . |