Example sentences of "have never [been] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
| 2 | Until recently this has never been a problem for Fred and Beth . |
| 3 | Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’ |
| 4 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 5 | There has never been a case where the ‘ B ’ sample has not matched the ‘ A ’ . |
| 6 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 7 | TELEVISION has never been a time-filler for me . |
| 8 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 9 | ( Though the city has never been a paradise , especially in warm weather . |
| 10 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 11 | Mine , at any rate , after the initial angers and resentments , has lingered on to this day , and I think there has never been a rime when I did not remember that love and think of Dana . |
| 12 | But despite this and other anthems of our time , like ‘ N-I-X-O-N ’ , ‘ Tricky Dicky Was A Rock ‘ n ’ Roller ’ and ‘ Plot Against The Prezident ’ ( correct spelling has never been a Dick-Nixs essential ) , when the time came , America turned its back on the band 's hero . |
| 13 | Gooch has never been a person to dwell on the past . |
| 14 | There has never been a ban on supplying nicotine substitutes to individual patients . |
| 15 | The free entry of goods ( particularly consumer goods ) from abroad has never been a feature of global trade . |
| 16 | Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys . |
| 17 | There has never been a day , nor yet an hour , when I have not ached for the loss of that which existed before Lucifer led his followers against the gods . |
| 18 | Health has never been a priority in the programmes . |
| 19 | ‘ To your knowledge there has never been a gun in this house ? ’ |
| 20 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 21 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |
| 22 | It is especially interesting that , leaving aside the damage that such a policy would do to the services by wiping out 10 frigates , four submarines and four squadrons of Tornados , there has never been a suggestion in any of the texts that money would be returned to the taxpayer . |
| 23 | That phrase has never been a cliché to me , but an exact description of what I experienced in 1946 . |
| 24 | Maybe , in time , realism may prevail , but I see young players with stars in their eyes , and realism has never been a match for that in any walk of life . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ There has never been a channel to show so much live football . |
| 26 | ‘ When you count the goals up next May , I think you 'll find there has never been a season like it , ’ he said on the eve of tonight 's match at Crystal Palace . |
| 27 | But , for influence , there has never been a lawyer to equal Goodman at his height . |
| 28 | In essence there has never been a distinction between the respective responsibilities of executive and non-executive directors . |
| 29 | Scotland has never been a stranger to drug-related violence , though our favourite drug of choice has been legal for centuries . |
| 30 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |