Example sentences of "[was/were] never [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boyfriends , for a young and pretty girl like Kylie , were never a problem . |
| 2 | Intelligent , quick , his studies were never a problem . |
| 3 | Mostly , they were never a problem . |
| 4 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 5 | You were never a slave in Egypt , but your zeide was . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You were never a member of that stunt team . ’ |
| 7 | Up front , United were never a force ; coming up one of their best efforts , which deserved more than it got . |
| 8 | Oh there were never no word about that , no . |
| 9 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 10 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 11 | A strong Calvinist , he was never a friend to the episcopate , and moved the cessation of business in response to the accusation of seditious speeches made by Bishop Richard Neile [ q.v. ] , once Salisbury 's chaplain , against the Commons in 1614 . |
| 12 | Yet the surviving archives of the three principal choral establishments there — New College , All Souls , and Magdalen College — indicate that he was never a member of the permanent staff of any of their chapel choirs . |
| 13 | Going to the States this summer was never a consideration . |
| 14 | I was never a Creeper . |
| 15 | It was never a case of merely technical facility integrated to near perfection . |
| 16 | ‘ But we did n't mind a bit , a job here was so much more than just a means to an end , it was never a case of them and us . |
| 17 | In spite of changes in name and act , he was never a success as a performer , but became increasingly interested in the business of promotion and management . |
| 18 | There was never a vestige of evidence that he had passed information to the Russians , and eventually in 1962 he was rehabilitated . |
| 19 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 20 | To some it will seem perverse to choose to inhabit that village-world of rural prejudice but I was never a town-child and the Scottish cities in particular hold no charms for me . |
| 21 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 22 | There was never a turntable at er at . |
| 23 | But I was never a Communist . |
| 24 | Mankind has chosen — or perhaps it was never a choice — a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 25 | There was never a shortage of helpers to lift the bike up on to the pavement — over the school step and into the passage . |
| 26 | The classic Chaplin figure was never a worker , never a member of a class and never in danger of being politically motivated and divisive . |
| 27 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 28 | ‘ I WAS never a child — always an adult . |
| 29 | But Gerry was never a child . |
| 30 | " I " was never a child . |