Example sentences of "never been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to exact this ‘ favour ’ , that was what had never been thrashed out ( except for some loose talk of getting weapons from castle armouries ) . |
| 2 | She 'd never been thrashed before , apart from the half dozen strokes of the cane suffered at Holmsly Manor . |
| 3 | How , for example , can a man be a British citizen when he is born in a foreign country of foreign parents and has never been naturalised ? |
| 4 | This by-law has never been repealed and it is a great pity that it is not still rigidly enforced . |
| 5 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 6 | The First Law of Thermodynamics basically states that energy has never been observed to be created or destroyed . |
| 7 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 8 | Paraconductivity effects are strongly dependent on the dimensionality of the system , although for conventional superconductors , three-dimensional fluctuation conductivity has to our knowledge never been observed . |
| 9 | But no , she had never been observed doing anything ‘ noticeable ’ in any way , she was just a woman going about her life , and apparently enjoying it . |
| 10 | ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . |
| 11 | In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’ |
| 12 | Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes . |
| 13 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 14 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 15 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 16 | ‘ In 15 years I 've never been injured . |
| 17 | Yeah well I thought they said in one of the papers that he 'd never been registered anywhere . |
| 18 | Officially the case has never been cleared up , as not a soul reported the man to the authorities . |
| 19 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 20 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 21 | Yet it together with the other numerous Somerset railways knitted town and country together in a way that had never been achieved before . |
| 22 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 23 | but provision for the higher education of eligible members of the deaf community has never been achieved . |
| 24 | His Oxfordshire-based Williams team are looking for their fifth consecutive Grand Prix win … a feat which has never been achieved in the history of the sport . |
| 25 | Everything made sense now — his obsessional hatred of the drugs world , his grim determination to fight the dealers , his refusal to accept her repeated protests that she had never been involved . |
| 26 | I have never been cheered so loudly ! |
| 27 | Since then , the Castle has been defended against many sieges and attacks and its walls have never been breached . |
| 28 | Now the barriers were back in place , as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all . |
| 29 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 30 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |