Example sentences of "never a [adj] [noun] of " 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 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |
| 3 | Certain teams did become very loosely identified with Catholic or Protestant support in Liverpool and Manchester , but this was never a prominent feature of English football or a significant source of violence . |
| 4 | While the secret lay within the grasp of a few , there was never a great danger of a nuclear exchange — except for an accidental one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was never a teacher in a narrow pianistic sense , was never a mere driller of scales . |
| 8 | He was never a utopian communitarian of the Owenite type . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was never a favourite character of mine , as I do not approve of the British partition and subsequent desertion of India , mismanaged by Mountbatten against a horrific background of massacres . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My husband was never a particular friend of yours , was he ? ’ |