Example sentences of "[noun sg] have never been [vb pp] with " in BNC.

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1 But in a letter to club secretary Peter Barnes , Sugar said : ‘ The board has never been familiarised with the terms Mr Ruddock refers to . ’
2 Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ .
3 He knew that his brother-in-law had never been associated with a controversial or political activity at any time and that , if the files were genuine , his one would contain exactly nothing .
4 She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity .
5 The British army has never been issued with it .
6 This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves .
7 Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible .
8 While emphasizing that he was a health expert rather than an engineer , Professor McDonald was most reassuring , citing Canadian evidence which he claimed showed that asbestosis and lung cancer had never been associated with environmental exposure to asbestos in the general community and were in fact confined to workers in the industry .
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