Example sentences of "there have never been " in BNC.

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1 It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns .
2 Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England .
3 But the word ‘ politics ’ itself needs to be deconstructed , since politics is to do with our ideals of what human life should be , about which there has never been agreement ; indeed , it is out of the disagreement that politics arises .
4 They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free .
5 Barnbrook Again was unbeaten last season and there was something radically amiss when he fell on his reappearance at Kempton for which there has never been a satisfactory explanation .
6 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 .
7 For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win .
8 There has never been anything like it at Cheltenham .
9 His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study .
10 There has never been any corroboration .
11 Those hostile to excessive party discipline in Westminster ( a frequent charge ) should realise that , unlike the case in other constitutions , there has never been the ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ about the existence of parties : on the contrary , the very architecture of the House of Commons speaks volumes about the place of party allegiance in the parliamentary process .
12 There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism .
13 There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own .
14 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 .
15 Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects .
16 It has always been man-made in its entirety , for there has never been a supernatural source of information .
17 There has never been a British monarch , or before the union of England and Scotland , an English or Scottish monarch , who was deaf .
18 As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’
19 There has never been a better time for supporting the white rose
20 With all the new and reintroduced varieties now on the market there has never been a better time to grow from seed .
21 In fact there has never been two-shift working at Kalmar and , because of the downturn in the car market after the 1973 oil price rise , production has rarely reached 30,000 per year at that plant .
22 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 .
23 ‘ It 's amazing that Barry Norman , a cosy sort of guy , has ruled the roost on British television for 20 years and there has never been a real attempt to displace him before , ’ says cinema historian and Anthony Hopkins biographer Quentin Falk .
24 There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’
25 Yet there has never been a time when the British people were more in need of a vigilant and free Press .
26 ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said .
27 There has never been a time when women were not interested in politics …
28 Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people .
29 But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women .
30 Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before .
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