Example sentences of "was never [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He knew he was never going to be good enough for Formula One but his father would n't listen . |
| 3 | He answered a letter from America saying Toad was n't really altered as he was in my story , he was never going to be good . |
| 4 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 5 | Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy . |
| 6 | Introducing market-like mechanisms into a planned system of health care was never going to be easy . |
| 7 | Forget Swindon 's league form : Portsmouth away in the Coca Cola Cup was never going to be easy , and the famous old Pompey chimes were ringing loud and clear as an old County Ground favourite Alan McLoughlin led the charge . |
| 8 | A trip to Bristol was never going to be easy . |
| 9 | Of course it was never going to be easy . |
| 10 | As waves of combat mission flew out by night and day , the commander of this R A F tornado squadron warned that despite early successes , the task was never going to be easy . |
| 11 | I fought against it , but when you went away , and stayed away , despite all my letters and calls , I knew that there was never going to be any chance for me . ’ |
| 12 | He thought he was never going to be able to get it out of his mind . |
| 13 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |