Example sentences of "[pers pn] be never [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause .
2 They were never intended to be observed out of mere formality and empty ritual .
3 They were never allowed to be naughty .
4 They can be rough , ragged , they can have fights onstage , but they were never meant to be a workaday band .
5 It 's never intended to be a substitute or a replacement for your statutory rights .
6 Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction ; where it was never meant to be .
7 It was always an ornament , it was never meant to be used as an every day kettle .
8 When asked about the F-factor , she said : ‘ I think it was hyped up into something that it was never meant to be .
9 Ravel 's La Valse could have been anti-climactic after this , but it was never allowed to be remotely so .
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