Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have never " in BNC.

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1 This fact , plus the ubiquitous veil of secrecy which covers military matters , has fuelled suspicion that the link has never been thoroughly broken and that plutonium produced in civil reactors has found its way into the military stockpiles .
2 The link has never failed .
3 The Prince had never publicly been so outspoken on such a politically sensitive subject , but it was something he felt he could not ignore .
4 Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers .
5 Paradoxically , the Pentagon has never been as preoccupied as the State Department with the vagaries of General Noriega .
6 But in a letter to club secretary Peter Barnes , Sugar said : ‘ The board has never been familiarised with the terms Mr Ruddock refers to . ’
7 The board has never discussed it , ’ he said .
8 The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago .
9 The technique has never been used before and , if necessary , will be attempted again tomorrow .
10 Yet the money had never come .
11 Officially the case has never been cleared up , as not a soul reported the man to the authorities .
12 I 've seen both of their reports — the file on the case has never been closed , in all this time .
13 Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published .
14 That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital .
15 But the novel was never written , and the notes have never been found .
16 prior to June 1956 the Squadron had never managed to get their four aircraft airborne at the same time .
17 After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war .
18 Restoring their land fell within the purview of the bill because in 1948 the Slovak government had agreed that many Hungarians should get their land back , but the decision had never been implemented .
19 But there was even greater bitterness among many Lithuanian nationalists , who felt the Russians had never wanted to understand why the Lithuanians felt resentment against years of oppression .
20 The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo .
21 Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory
22 The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation .
23 The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart .
24 A chance inquiry into an old debt revealed that the building had never been fully consecrated and thus would revert to Assheton family ownership after a year and a day 's disuse .
25 The building has never been completed and , though the existing arm is of magnificent quality and proportions , with beautiful coloured glass and a fine chevet , it is still a truncated church , impossible to view as its builders intended .
26 The slogan has never changed .
27 Also , the story has never before been told in its proper historical and intellectual context .
28 This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing .
29 If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code .
30 Obviously the owner of the cottage had never been burgled and did n't really believe that it might happen ; there was a new-looking bolt at the bottom of the kitchen door that had n't been shot .
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