Example sentences of "never be [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries .
2 Certainly the rivalries within the Merovingian family ensured that there could never been a simple pattern of succession
3 Fred reckons there 's never been a clearer example of what he means .
4 Indeed it had never been a favourite pastime of hers .
5 It has always been man-made in its entirety , for there has never been a supernatural source of information .
6 Until now I have never been a particular admirer of Fifine , but somehow the improved quality brings out the score 's atmosphere and personality much more vividly , and Beecham 's exquisite handling of detail makes a much greater impact .
7 Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress .
8 Mais r-r-rien de plus ! ’ ; and on the other , and also out of his own mouth , ‘ sponging has never been the guiding principle of my actions .
9 On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’
10 So it was never been an honest sort of work relationship , from the outset .
11 France will never be a net exporter of fossil fuel but the success of the nuclear programme could bring energy export revenues .
12 In this country it can never be a major contributor of energy .
13 Sir Karl Popper , whose ‘ Conjectures and Refutations ’ is crucial for understanding the recent philosophy of science , points out that the mind can never be a passive register of experience .
14 Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy .
15 It is probably true to say that there will never be a huge assemblage of flying aircraft , supported by expensive ‘ props ’ on the ground , ever again .
16 This would mean that there can never be an authentic speech of the other as such , a position which certainly troubles Levinas ' fundamental argument .
17 The purport of that attack was to prove that generality could never be an intrinsic property of a mental content .
18 An antidepressant should never be the sole form of treatment a patient is receiving , even if his illness appears to be entirely of an endogenous variety .
19 As he puts it , " performative speech can never be the unilateral act of a single individual " ( p.5 ) .
20 Never was the enormous authority of this machine for living in ever so well expressed as in this scene of picturesque desolation .
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