Example sentences of "never [be] [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 the Government accepted the Report , though it has never been debated in Parliament . |
| 2 | If we take seriously the notion of ‘ unlimited number ’ , there must be , for any lexical form , potential senses which have never been realised in use : equally , every lexical form has at least one relatively well-utilised sense . |
| 3 | The problem was that the provisions of the Coal Act had never been tested in court . |
| 4 | Four hundred aircraft from fifty airforces , fourteen aerobatic teams , some planes which have never been seen in Britain before . |
| 5 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 6 | The principle of popular sovereignty has never been accepted in Britain : instead sovereignty is shared between Parliament and an hereditary monarch . |
| 7 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 8 | He had , after all , been an officer during the war , albeit one who had never been tried in battle . |
| 9 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 10 | Such cells have never been described in Vl ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 11 | These have never been used in studies with humans . |
| 12 | Most of the display has never been used in anger , or self defence . |
| 13 | It would be as if he had never been taken in treason . |
| 14 | However , in many years of examination of ancient jewellery , cadmium has never been found in pieces from excavation , or from otherwise unimpeachable sources , but only in pieces that were suspect on other grounds . |
| 15 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 16 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | Victorine cried out as soon as she saw them : that wretched child , I knew it would be hopeless letting her help , it 's too much , I 'll never be done in time . |
| 18 | The mass disfranchisement of thousands of citizens in local government , the disgraceful manipulation of constituency boundaries , the enforced political tests for government jobs and legislation , such as the Flags and Emblems Act , were some of the shackles on individual freedom which would never be tolerated in England . |
| 19 | Needless to say , this is no reason why feminists should cease their demands ( quite the reverse ) , but it is a reason why the demand for abolition will never be met in isolation ; and even if it were it would be pointless overall , since further anomalies would be created and the burden of injustice simply shifted to other women . |
| 20 | They can be distinguished logically , as we are doing here , but they should never be separated in practice . |
| 21 | Mathematics is not just about developing facility for number : it is essentially a subject which has links with all other curriculum areas and should never be taught in isolation . |
| 22 | And again , over a longer time span genes will have changed by mutation or altered their effects by chromosomal recombination so that the effect they exert on traits can never be considered in isolation . |
| 23 | That means the recombinant virus would never be used in Europe and North America . |
| 24 | Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence . |
| 25 | Series connection of the windings would therefore seem to be something that would never be used in practice . |
| 26 | This is very low , and would never be used in practice , but it allows an example to be shown in a compact diagram . |
| 27 | The flight to London , everything into place , co-operation will take you home , Michael — you do n't mind if I call you by your name , and I am Yuri — it would never be known in London that you have helped us , you would go home with honour … ’ |
| 28 | The detector should also never be laid in mud or on wet ground as water may enter the battery compartments . |
| 29 | He left on Thursday 1 May and there was a comparatively light raid that night , but it was the start of eight days and nights which would never be forgotten in Liverpool . |
| 30 | He would never admit to himself that this was because Jeopardy seemed beyond him ; Lucien was convinced he could never be included in Jeopardy 's elite circle of friends , and so it was easier to dislike him , to pick fault and criticise . |