Example sentences of "be never [vb pp] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be rough , ragged , they can have fights onstage , but they were never meant to be a workaday band . |
| 2 | It 's never intended to be a substitute or a replacement for your statutory rights . |
| 3 | War was never intended to be a drab affair . |
| 4 | 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popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended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 . |
| 5 | According to Borland , Paradox 4 is between five and ten times faster than Version 3.5 — a program that was never accused of being a slouch — and on most tasks it reportedly matches or beats FoxPro , Microsoft 's swift dBase lookalike , which previously outpaced all comers . |
| 6 | It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow . |
| 7 | With such a big wing and the drag of all those struts , mass-balance weights and dangling bits of rope trailing in the slipstream , the Beaver was never meant to be a record-breaker , but the normal cruise speed of 95 knots at Tony 's parsimonious power setting of 28 inches and 1,750 rpm burns a fairly frugal ( for this big engine ) eighteen gallons per hour . |
| 8 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |