Example sentences of "never [adv] be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 2 | It was Esther Ward , the mother who had never really been a mother . |
| 3 | Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's never really been a reason . |
| 5 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 6 | By ! there 'll never again be a year like this for you to get your teeth into . ’ |
| 7 | Then the man who is believed to have attacked at least 100 women would never again be a threat . |
| 8 | ‘ There 'll never again be a summer like it . |
| 9 | I was beginning to realise that I would never actually be a man and I already had experienced what I probably wanted more than anything else — the power men have in society . |
| 10 | They are sad for Johnny Bryan because he can never truly be a member of this particular family . |
| 11 | This is an excellent method of understanding the contexts of situations and its meaning for those involved , even though one can never truly be a participant observer . |