Example sentences of "have never [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise . |
| 2 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 3 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 4 | THE ACOUSTIC of Birmingham Town Hall has never been kind to the mistier recesses of Debussy and Ravel . |
| 5 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 6 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 7 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 8 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 9 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never been able to , ’ said Lucy . |
| 11 | No , I know , I do n't mean owt , owt wrong but I just ca n't remember these two names , I do n't know why , there 's something I 've never been able to , cos I 've always said to you ai n't I ? |
| 12 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 13 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 14 | The ancient duchy of Gascony , united with Aquitaine in the later eleventh century , had never been subject to the French crown . |
| 15 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 16 | Comfort had never been important to him . |
| 17 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 18 | He had been awake nearly all the night with an attack of hiccups — something he had never been prone to . |
| 19 | It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members . |
| 20 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 21 | Erm he has nothing at all because he 's never been married to you . |
| 22 | A secret valley that 's never been open to the public could soon be taken over by the National Trust . |
| 23 | It 's a magical place that 's never been open to the public . |
| 24 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 25 | The military regimes in power have never been averse to arresting leaders of the political opposition , but only in recent years has this become a systematic practice . |