Example sentences of "never be more [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
2 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
3 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
4 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |
5 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |