Example sentences of "have never been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moore , banks have never been particularly reluctant to back high technology ventures . |
| 2 | But in practice structuralist poetics have never been particularly interested in establishing the specificity of literature . |
| 3 | Punch jokes have never been tremendously funny , but one particular line , ‘ Fostering prices start from just £14.95 ’ , strikes me as quite droll . |
| 4 | After the verdict she still insisted : ‘ I have never been improperly involved with him . ’ |
| 5 | It is apparent that trade unions in agriculture have never been sufficiently strong to raise wages beyond that level which the labour market has already determined . |
| 6 | Their minds have never been sufficiently clear of the substance or process of addiction to be in any significant degree of recovery . |
| 7 | Please give me some hope , ’ he urged , ‘ because , apart from the certainty in my heart that miluji të , I have never been so uncertain , so apprehensive at any time in my life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have never been so fortunate . ’ |
| 9 | Public tastes and current architecture have never been so much at odds . |
| 10 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 11 | I was nervous in the dressing room but once on the pitch and with the thrill of being presented to the Princess Royal it felt just great and I have never been so proud in my life , especially when I saw my sister , Kirsty , up in the stand . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never been so close to resigning from the force , ’ Morton said slowly . |
| 13 | She declares , ‘ I am a nun now , I have never been so pure . ’ |
| 14 | And in any case I am so angry — I have never been so angry ! — I am prepared to commit suicide if it would mean the end of your career ! |
| 15 | ‘ I have never been so glad to see anyone in my life , ’ I said , ‘ nor so surprised . ’ |
| 16 | For all that England are the only European nation not to concede a goal in the qualifying tournament , it is no exaggeration to suggest they have never been so ill-equipped for the persistent rigours of a World Cup . |
| 17 | John I bet you have never been so quiet . |
| 18 | I have never been so happy in my life and I know that it will go on for ever . |
| 19 | I have never been so happy . |
| 20 | Remember British living standards have never been so high . ’ |
| 21 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |
| 22 | I have never been so scared in my life . |
| 23 | Yes houses have never been so affordable , but confidence equally , has never been so low . |
| 24 | Many geographers have never been deeply concerned with ultimate objectives of social character , and some would sincerely regard efforts to provide directives for human action as presumptuous and arrogant . |
| 25 | Try as they might , the City 's denizens have never been as colourful and flamboyant as those who set out to make crime a career rather than just a sideline . |
| 26 | Perhaps the standards of civic loyalty and respect for law and order have never been as high as conservative romantics affected to believe . |
| 27 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 28 | Although crowds mean money , the rulers of cricket have never been quite happy about them . |
| 29 | It is a fickle , too-short season and for much of this century the Soviet Union 's granaries have never been quite full enough for domestic and political comfort . |
| 30 | To Mauriac 's lesson in Gaullist orthodoxy , de Gaulle replied : " Politics have never been less inviting than at this moment . |