Example sentences of "[verb] never [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix System Laboratories , which has never officially been part of X/Open though it 's had a lot of informal dealings with it , is also expected to take advantage of the new technical membership and sign up . |
| 2 | There seems little point in saying that teething is a non-existent condition which has never reliably been shown to cause any distress . |
| 3 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 4 | That 's ours are that one ours has never even been . |
| 5 | The exhibition includes Marcel Duchamp who has never previously been featured in an exhibition of American art . |
| 6 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 7 | The main thrust of Mr. Lester 's submissions for the defendants has never previously been considered in the context of libel . |
| 8 | Er the Residents ' Association erm feel that this examination in public is not the right forum to erm answer a question which has never properly been asked erm at the County Council . |
| 9 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 10 | This clause has never yet been activated . |
| 11 | No such a vote of no confidence has never yet been passed in a west European state . |
| 12 | Yet it remains important to take on board the intentions behind that approach : the global vision , the search for harmony , and the emphasis upon fairness to all religions , has never more been needed in the world than today . |
| 13 | As a result , it has never convincingly been able to counter the criticisms , which inevitably arose , when commonplace human capacity to apply intelligent questioning to proffered articles of faith , had become widespread and powerful enough to prevail above all dogma and superstition . |
| 14 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 15 | Factory life in the age of automation has never recently been so closely or sensitively examined . |
| 16 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 17 | EIB money has never before been offered to Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | It has never before been more important to incorporate informed legal advice into corporate decision making . |
| 19 | The Louvre received an extraordinarily rich array of material from this region , most of which has never before been loaned . |
| 20 | Although ‘ Moore Intime ’ had the cooperation of the Henry Moore Foundation , she reminded everyone of her diverging views in her speech at the inaugural dinner : ‘ I can see and feel the real Henry Moore in this exhibition in a way that has never before been achieved . |
| 21 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 22 | How is a totally new , totally comprehensive valuation of capital values — something that has never before been done in England and Wales — to be carried out within the dangerously tight timetable dictated by the Government 's electoral concerns ? |
| 23 | Also , the story has never before been told in its proper historical and intellectual context . |
| 24 | What has never before been directly decided in England is whether the doctrine applies to a gift of land by delivery of the title deeds … |
| 25 | Miss Joyce could not afford to sue for libel , for which Legal Aid is not available , so she chose the ancient legal route of malicious falsehood which IS covered by legal aid but has never before been used in this way . |
| 26 | The classy eight-year-old has never before been entered in either race . |
| 27 | I can confirm that he is supported by a competent staff , and has never actually been convicted of being foreign or of committing serial buttock fondling in his office or elsewhere . |
| 28 | In a transaction that has never fully been explained , and to this day baffles Baxter , the two Scottish players handed over counterfeit Canadian dollars , and within hours were facing police accusations that they were involved in a forgery ring . |
| 29 | ‘ There is a feeling now of cooperation which has never ever been in our system at this level before . |
| 30 | Sarah Loosemore is Britain 's youngest at 18 , just back from her three A levels and injury , eager to prove she has never really been away . |