Example sentences of "there have never [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles .
3 There has never been any question about that .
4 There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out .
5 I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario .
6 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 . ’
7 There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish .
8 There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing .
9 But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players .
10 There has never been any trouble .
11 Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects .
12 There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’
13 There has never been any corroboration .
14 There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal .
15 Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before .
16 The table was bare again , as if there had never been good food and wine .
17 There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house .
18 There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them .
19 There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else .
20 There had never been any doubt in my own mind .
21 The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them .
22 Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account .
23 With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence .
24 He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them .
25 To the National Defence Council he asserted that of course there had never been any intention of abandoning the Right Bank .
26 He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament .
27 But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) .
28 Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high .
29 ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky .
30 There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron .
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