Example sentences of "be never [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 2 | They were never intended to be observed out of mere formality and empty ritual . |
| 3 | The circumstances in that case involving , as they did , buying and selling in well defined foreign markets were very different from those in the present and the examples were never intended to be exhaustive of all situations in which section 14 of the Ordinance might have to be considered . |
| 4 | They were never allowed to be naughty . |
| 5 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 6 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 7 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |
| 8 | They can be rough , ragged , they can have fights onstage , but they were never meant to be a workaday band . |
| 9 | Baby Sousan had been a gift from Allah , a blessing , a reward for the affection of two people for each other who were never meant to be together . |
| 10 | ( One of the cruellest ironies of the death camps is that Jews were never meant to be thin . ) |
| 11 | When the two halves , separated by that terrifying law which parts the two who were never meant to be divided , defy that law and meet , there can be no gainsaying them . |
| 12 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 13 | Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’ |
| 14 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |
| 15 | It 's never intended to be a substitute or a replacement for your statutory rights . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It ca n't be an ordinary girl from an ordinary family because in Egypt ordinary girls are never allowed to be seen . |
| 18 | In the field of ideas we rarely design transition ideas : ideas that are never meant to be permanent . |
| 19 | War was never intended to be a drab affair . |
| 20 | He told the sombre truths of the lighthearted , betraying in a casual hour what was never intended to be shown . |
| 21 | The term " father " was never intended to be taken literally . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ravel 's La Valse could have been anti-climactic after this , but it was never allowed to be remotely so . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Pop was never meant to be this vicarish . |
| 27 | The republic 's long estrangement from the six counties of the north was never meant to be . |
| 28 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction ; where it was never meant to be . |