Example sentences of "never a [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our case , it was never a simple matter of trust , once having been won , being taken for granted , as the textbooks suggest . |
| 2 | Although there was never a great deal of action , at one time the firm must have done a fair trade as old Mr. Talbot was reputed to be a very wealthy man . |
| 3 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
| 4 | He was never a teacher in a narrow pianistic sense , was never a mere driller of scales . |
| 5 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 6 | Although you may normally take the view that there is never a best time for spending money , retirement planning is different in that sooner or later you will need , or want , to make certain purchases — or pay off outstanding commitments , such as a mortgage . |
| 7 | There 's never a dull moment at Ballytreabhair . |
| 8 | Howson was never a well man after Borneo . |
| 9 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
| 10 | He became a junior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1840 , but was never a promising candidate for promotion in the government service . |
| 11 | Orwell , unlike Waugh , was never a natural master of narrative , and his uncertain career in fiction had begun , after much trial and error , with Burmese Days ( 1934 ) , where he had exploited his youthful experiences in the Burma police . |
| 12 | It was never a formal club with minutes , or apologies for absence , or any ‘ business ’ or recognizable membership . |
| 13 | Thirdly , there is therefore never a single hypothesis at stake . |
| 14 | ‘ There they go again , tweedly-deedly , tweedly-deedly , belly-aching the whole bleeding night , and the toasted cheese seizing on to their plates like goddam glue , which I durse n't go in to fetch them ; and never an honest tune from beginning to end . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |