Example sentences of "was never [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
2 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
3 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
4 | This was never going to work ! |
5 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
6 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |