Example sentences of "was never [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praise was never given to an individual child but only when the entire class did well . |
| 2 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 3 | Thus the role of the school in promoting economic change was stated , but little debated , and reference was never made to studies which showed the difficulties of such a role . |
| 4 | However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 6 | For the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party , the notion of a ‘ social contract ’ was never tied to an industrial policy of the kind which the left envisaged . |
| 7 | Because I was never asked to . |
| 8 | War allowed little time for reform ; the regenerating Constitution of Bayonne was never applied to Spain ; ambitious schemes for a new system of education , for a modern code based on the Code Napoléon came to nothing . |
| 9 | You know as well as I do a child was never born to Miss Lavant . |
| 10 | The dramatic incident at Hause Point was never referred to . |
| 11 | War was never intended to be a drab affair . |
| 12 | He told the sombre truths of the lighthearted , betraying in a casual hour what was never intended to be shown . |
| 13 | The United Nations was never intended to police the world . |
| 14 | The term " father " was never intended to be taken literally . |
| 15 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |
| 16 | No attempt had been made to secure the tape and its existence was never revealed to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 17 | I was never to return to Valladolid , a place of fear and heartbreak , until long after the death of Franco and the end of his regime . |
| 18 | Although Mary herself was never to return to the town above the Jed Water or to venture again into the valley of the Liddel Water , her tragic history was soon to involve others in the turmoil of Liddesdale . |
| 19 | He was never elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society , but in 1898 his work was recognized by the award of the gold medal of the Linnean Society . |
| 20 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 21 | He was never invited to his flat , apart from a drink in the Farley Court flat before an evening at a restaurant . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was never explained to them . |
| 23 | Funnily , this was never explained to us , nor did our neighbour ever question the matter . |
| 24 | Mr Brown said it was ‘ included only under the broadest heading — Treasury running costs — was never drawn to the attention of the Audit Office as a special feature and has never been investigated by the Audit Office , something which should now happen ’ . |
| 25 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 26 | He was never brought to justice , and since he has long since died himself , we shall leave the matter there . |
| 27 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 28 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 29 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 30 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |