Example sentences of "never [verb] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 2 | However what , what I think is the most important aspect of this , the communist party is not and never has been a party in the normal sense of the term , it 's a closed shop for the ruling establishment of the Soviet Union and therefore it 's quite simply incompatible with politics . |
| 3 | But Madonna is n't and never has been a musician . |
| 4 | But Mr Knightley could never have been a phoney . |
| 5 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 6 | There can never have been a field of research in which the likelihood that people would make similar discoveries almost simultaneously has been as great . |
| 7 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 8 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 9 | If I had n't run away and made good , you 'd never have been the father of Lady Firth . |
| 10 | A person 's membership of the committee is automatically terminated : ( i ) if he becomes bankrupt ( his trustee replaces him ) or he compounds with his creditors ; ( ii ) if he is not present or represented at three consecutive meetings ( unless at the third meeting it is resolved that this rule will not apply ) ; and ( iii ) if he ceases to be or is found never to have been a creditor ( r 6.158 ) . |
| 11 | This rather contradicts his claim never to have been an IRA member . |
| 12 | It was not and never had been a question of wages . |
| 13 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 14 | ‘ Summerchild , ’ he could be saying , briefly and flatly , as if there never had been a case . |
| 15 | This took effect on and from Monday September 26th , the last passenger trains actually running on September 24th as there was , and never had been a Sunday service . |
| 16 | He was led to believe there never had been a brother . |
| 17 | Donovan told the jury that he was not and never had been a homosexual . |
| 18 | Mrs. Simper then found out that my sauciness was grown to such a height that no body could endure it , and told my lady , that there never had been a room well swept , since Betty Broom came into the house |
| 19 | I am not , and never have been a crofter . |
| 20 | I 'm not and I never have been a hippy , I ca n't just ‘ hang out ’ any more . |