Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] has never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 2 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 3 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 4 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 5 | But there has never been self-doubt . |
| 6 | Osnafeld is a British subject , a financier of sorts who has sailed very close to the wind on a number of occasions , but there has never been enough evidence to proceed against him . |
| 7 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 8 | But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff . |
| 9 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 10 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |
| 11 | It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands . |
| 12 | BBN last escaped the axe in 1986 and was subsequently revamped under its current editor Jennifer Creswick , but it has never been far from the blade as the Council has been forced to cut back over the years . |
| 13 | But it has never been easier than it is now |