Example sentences of "have never [been] [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | England , by contrast , has never been faced with or sought such an opportunity . |
| 3 | Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible . |
| 4 | Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order . |
| 5 | This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves . |
| 6 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 7 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 8 | In this country there is probably no river or wetland which is ‘ natural ’ in the sense that it has never been interfered with by man ; but river systems have two major characteristics which have enabled their wildlife in all its original complexity to survive interference better than most other systems . |
| 9 | The British army has never been issued with it . |
| 10 | But in a letter to club secretary Peter Barnes , Sugar said : ‘ The board has never been familiarised with the terms Mr Ruddock refers to . ’ |
| 11 | Although he 'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides , I 've never been consumed with lust for the caress of a grey woollen glove . ’ |
| 13 | No , not at all , I 'm not nervous , no I 've never been bothered with things that go bang in the night . |
| 14 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 15 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 16 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 17 | He had never been charged with any criminal offence . |
| 18 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 19 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 20 | ‘ They felt their needs had never been dealt with and a group would take away attention from their problem , ’ she says . |
| 21 | He knew that his brother-in-law had never been associated with a controversial or political activity at any time and that , if the files were genuine , his one would contain exactly nothing . |
| 22 | While emphasizing that he was a health expert rather than an engineer , Professor McDonald was most reassuring , citing Canadian evidence which he claimed showed that asbestosis and lung cancer had never been associated with environmental exposure to asbestos in the general community and were in fact confined to workers in the industry . |
| 23 | PI Associates , sole manufacturers of PolyPads , wish it to be known that Bridlesuite of Lanarkshire have never been supplied with or ever stocked genuine PolyPads . |
| 24 | David Profumo wrote in the Daily Telegraph : ‘ Heresy as it is in literary circles , I have to say I have never been taken with the work of the late Angela Carter . |
| 25 | But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago . |
| 26 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 27 | The nuns claim that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , and although salmonella is present in the environment it is not necessarily in the eggs . |