Example sentences of "[verb] never be [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fact , plus the ubiquitous veil of secrecy which covers military matters , has fuelled suspicion that the link has never been thoroughly broken and that plutonium produced in civil reactors has found its way into the military stockpiles . |
| 2 | But , true to its timid traditions , the English crimi nal justice system still excludes these videos from court hearings be cause of the hearsay rule ; a rule which has never been definitively formulated but which crudely pre vents statements made out of court by a witness to someone else being admissible . |
| 3 | In spite of Caroline Tisdall 's marvellous study of his art which was held at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979 , this complex man has never been widely known nor understood by an American audience . |
| 4 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 5 | As an organizational system , managerial hierarchy has never been adequately described and has just as certainly never been adequately used . |
| 6 | A loose association of artists , writers , composers , filmmakers and performers , Fluxus has never been satisfactorily defined and has fitted awkwardly into broader surveys of the period of its more energetic activity . |
| 7 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |
| 8 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 9 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 10 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 11 | A chance inquiry into an old debt revealed that the building had never been fully consecrated and thus would revert to Assheton family ownership after a year and a day 's disuse . |
| 12 | While inevitably losing office in 1660 , he cleared his accounts successfully , while years later Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] believed that the finances of the navy had never been better handled than while he was treasurer . |
| 13 | Unfortunately they tend to be ignored as they have never been properly recorded and analyzed/evaluated . |
| 14 | Generally , however , I am just looking forward to another good season — and I think I 'll make it because I have never been so settled or contented in my life . ’ |
| 15 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |