Example sentences of "have never [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 2 | There has never been any question about that . |
| 3 | There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out . |
| 4 | There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles . |
| 5 | I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario . |
| 6 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 7 | But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players . |
| 8 | There has never been any trouble . |
| 9 | There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish . |
| 10 | There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing . |
| 11 | There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal . |
| 12 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 13 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 14 | Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects . |
| 15 | In the history of British participation in world-class events there has never been any recognition or backing on a national scale . |
| 16 | Osnafeld is a British subject , a financier of sorts who has sailed very close to the wind on a number of occasions , but there has never been enough evidence to proceed against him . |
| 17 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 18 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 19 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 20 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 22 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 23 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 24 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 25 | The table was bare again , as if there had never been good food and wine . |
| 26 | Nails ' mum and dad had never been homely sorts . |
| 27 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 28 | He had never been this way before . |
| 29 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 30 | There had never been enough money to dress the child properly and even if there had been they did n't have the style or the know-how . |