Example sentences of "never [verb] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 2 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 3 | War was never intended to be a drab affair . |
| 4 | It 's never intended to be a substitute or a replacement for your statutory rights . |
| 5 | 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popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended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 . |
| 6 | I never asked to be a witch 's daughter . ’ |
| 7 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never claimed to be a punk rocker , I 've just claimed to have liked punk rock music . |
| 9 | I 've never claimed much ; I 've never claimed to be a great original ; my life has been a series of accidents with me just sort of helping along . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never claimed to be an artist , ’ she said coolly , ‘ simply an amateur painter , and therefore you 'd find my opinion very uninformed … |
| 11 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 12 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 13 | You 're never going to be a permanent part of Julius 's life . ’ |
| 14 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 15 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 16 | He did not gel with Chapman , and was never going to be a direct replacement , so I could n't see where he was going to fit in long-term . |
| 17 | The inward investment is will continue to be a source of new jobs and it is encouraged as a as making a contribution to new jobs , but is never going to be a major contributor to new job growth . |
| 18 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 19 | IT WAS NEVER going to be an easy Christmas . |
| 20 | But as long as tobacco continues to be readily available there is never going to be an easy answer . ’ |
| 21 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 22 | ‘ I never claimed to be an experienced sailor . |
| 23 | The relationship when manufacturing and retailing are in the same company never seems to be a healthy one and I think there are many examples of that . |
| 24 | What constitute the elements of a structure , its units , never seems to be a problem for the structuralists because they are taken as an empirical property of the medium of signification ( the text ) . |
| 25 | There had never seemed to be a particularly harmonious relationship between Kalchu and the bulls . |
| 26 | But since then , there has never seemed to be a right time . |
| 27 | The main tenet of Sobchak 's philosophy is that a woman should never forget to be a woman . |
| 28 | If the truth were known , Sir Henry had never wanted to be a country gentleman , which must have seemed very small beer after such a distinguished and varied military career . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never wanted to be a jobbing presenter , ’ reveals Muriel , 32 , who lives in Edinburgh . |
| 30 | As a child , Ace had never wanted to be a nurse . |