Example sentences of "have never been [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order .
3 Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ .
4 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 .
5 Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) .
6 Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger .
7 He had never been charged with any criminal offence .
8 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 .
9 Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience .
10 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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