Example sentences of "was never [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Going to the States this summer was never a consideration . |
| 5 | I was never a Creeper . |
| 6 | It was never a case of merely technical facility integrated to near perfection . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was never a vestige of evidence that he had passed information to the Russians , and eventually in 1962 he was rehabilitated . |
| 10 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was never a turntable at er at . |
| 14 | But I was never a Communist . |
| 15 | Mankind has chosen — or perhaps it was never a choice — a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 16 | There was never a shortage of helpers to lift the bike up on to the pavement — over the school step and into the passage . |
| 17 | The classic Chaplin figure was never a worker , never a member of a class and never in danger of being politically motivated and divisive . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I WAS never a child — always an adult . |
| 20 | But Gerry was never a child . |
| 21 | " I " was never a child . |
| 22 | I was never a child I was born bald . |
| 23 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 24 | It was never a question of somebody saying ‘ we have a depression , let's give them depression movies ’ but given the new dispensation it was Hollywood 's instinct to come up with just that added edge that the age required in its films . |
| 25 | I was never a part of any plot with them . ’ |
| 26 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
| 27 | But there was never a chance of a happy ending for Princess Diana and Charles . |
| 28 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 29 | What is more , given the disparity in size between the two economies , there was never a chance that in this particular waltz British economic interest would be able to take the lead . |
| 30 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |