Example sentences of "never [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had never been a healthy man and found it difficult to earn a living . |
| 2 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 3 | Puzzled , for Dermot had never been a great correspondent , Kelly read : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But my mother 's never been a great one for housework and I think my standards are probably like hers … as long as things do n't get filthy , I 'm happy , but a lot of people would n't be satisfied with that . |
| 6 | Getting power out of the Honda NSR has never been a great problem though . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 8 | He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine . |
| 9 | It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really |
| 10 | Why has housing never been a central issue for the women 's liberation movement in Britain , despite the crucial place that it occupies in all our lives ? |
| 11 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 12 | Certainly Lloyd George had never been a doctrinaire free-trader . |
| 13 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 14 | I had never been a prime minister before . |
| 15 | I HAVE never been a good passenger . |
| 16 | There are some very good authors in the list , but recalling that there has never been a good book on poppies or penstemons , one might wish for a little more innovation in such lists . |
| 17 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all right for you , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you ai n't never been a poor orphan girl . ’ |
| 19 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 20 | In Church [ 1966 ] 1 QB 59 ( CCA ) , Edmund-Davies J was driven to say that " there has never been a complete and satisfactory definition of manslaughter " . |
| 21 | The relationship has never been a complete one . |
| 22 | There has never been a Labour Government who have had to face unemployment on this scale . |
| 23 | Certainly the rivalries within the Merovingian family ensured that there could never been a simple pattern of succession |
| 24 | There had never been a first form at Cambridge School . |
| 25 | Fred reckons there 's never been a clearer example of what he means . |
| 26 | Medau has never been a static or sterile form of movement . |
| 27 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 've never been a real emotional team , win or lose . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's amazing that Barry Norman , a cosy sort of guy , has ruled the roost on British television for 20 years and there has never been a real attempt to displace him before , ’ says cinema historian and Anthony Hopkins biographer Quentin Falk . |
| 30 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |