Example sentences of "[verb] never [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |
| 2 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 3 | Whatever , Carmody is an unassailable optimist who has never been seen in anything other than sprayed-on black jeans , winkle-pickered Chelsea boots , leather jacket and cap . |
| 4 | By the water 's edge the king 's son split the last reed , and a beautiful girl came out , so beautiful that her like has never been seen before or since . |
| 5 | In common with other types of support which I have considered here it seems that practical help , even when on a fairly small scale , has never been given to relatives automatically and without some assessment being made of the wider social context . |
| 6 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 7 | Henry II has never been heard of in Israel ( see chapter 3 ) . |
| 8 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 9 | And as far as I know , Hamadan has never been heard of again from that day to this . |
| 10 | Its conformity with the regulations has never been called into question until now . ’ |
| 11 | George has shown this to be a satisfactory option , reporting a five year survival of 80% , but this has never been compared in a randomised controlled trial with a treatment regimen . |
| 12 | Although it is common knowledge that dogs have been extensively employed in times of war , most people imagine that the cat has never been exploited in this way . |
| 13 | It has never been listed in the Journal . |
| 14 | In 1983 the Government accepted the Report , though it has never been debated in Parliament . |
| 15 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 16 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 17 | Strangely for one who has been so successful , Charlie has never been inundated by offers from English trainers , although no doubt this is in the process of changing following those Cheltenham wins . |
| 18 | The First Law of Thermodynamics basically states that energy has never been observed to be created or destroyed . |
| 19 | Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes . |
| 20 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 21 | ‘ You are talking about a sea which has never been crossed in living memory . |
| 22 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 23 | Fortunately there are now many people who think this is wrong , and they do so mainly for the same reason , that is , because the ‘ god ’ spoken of has never been explained in a manner which they themselves can easily understand and believe in . |
| 24 | Although homoeopathy has been a part of the British National Health Service since its inception in 1948 , it has never been taught as an undergraduate subject in any of the medical schools in Britain . |
| 25 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 26 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 27 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 28 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 29 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 30 | England , by contrast , has never been faced with or sought such an opportunity . |