Example sentences of "[verb] never [be] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 2 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |
| 3 | Standardisation has never been the IT industry 's strong point , and the answer is ‘ probably not ’ . |
| 4 | That has never been the County Council 's interpretation of the of the relationship between er this criteria and the Selby coalfield . |
| 5 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 6 | I 've never been a trade union man myself , never saw the point , but in terms of research and analysis I found the field a fascinating one . |
| 7 | On the other weekdays and at weekends , Father Barnes was expected to look after himself There had never been a job description . |
| 8 | Candy had never been a morning bird . |
| 9 | Hoskins says that he 's never been a dab hand at the Mario video games despite tutoring from his seven-year-old son , Jack . |
| 10 | Er it 's never been the County Council 's er objective or intention to restrain what are the genuine er employment needs of its local residents , erm and we feel that this level of allocation is suited to the needs of the residents . |
| 11 | I reflected on it , but declined , principally because of my unwillingness to belong to any party — I have never been a party member — and perhaps even more because the seat I was offered appeared to be an impregnable Tory stronghold . |