Example sentences of "it [verb] never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 2 | For members of the society it has never been so important to know these things . |
| 3 | Mr Parkinson told journalists later : ‘ It has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 4 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 5 | It was very much the custom of most churches in central Oxford , even though it has never been obligatory in the Anglican Communion . |
| 6 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 7 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 8 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 9 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 10 | It has never been in the rain before and has not developed a habit of accepting the discomfort of being in the rain . |
| 11 | It has never been off road , |
| 12 | It is an issue that everyone relates to , and it has never been done . |
| 13 | In this country there is probably no river or wetland which is ‘ natural ’ in the sense that it has never been interfered with by man ; but river systems have two major characteristics which have enabled their wildlife in all its original complexity to survive interference better than most other systems . |
| 14 | It has never been my view , I must admit . |
| 15 | The notion of randomness is especially unclear , in the sense that it has never been defined in any consistent way . |
| 16 | This would be untrue of course , if ‘ god ’ were just another name for the natural processes which provide food , but such a limited definition of the word would serve no purpose in the establishment of a religion , and it has never been thus used . |
| 17 | The circumstances of his adventure have not been recorded and it has never been authenticated . |
| 18 | Many farmers still retained some milk for cheesemaking but regulations on the production and use of milk during the Second World War almost brought farmhouse production to a halt and it has never been resumed on an appreciable scale . |
| 19 | It has never been the policy of National Parks to accept large housing estates , but applications for tourist complexes are now cropping up with alarming frequency at planning meetings . |
| 20 | It has never been the intention of Guitarist to augment dealer ads with sycophantic reviews , either . |
| 21 | Although homoeopathy has been a part of the British National Health Service since its inception in 1948 , it has never been taught as an undergraduate subject in any of the medical schools in Britain . |
| 22 | Before Christmas I found this machine at a car boot sale in new condition for only £3 , it has never been used and except for two screws missing and instructions , it seems to be in working order . |
| 23 | But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy . |
| 24 | It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands . |
| 25 | Former Widnes boss Laughton , who first tempted the ex-Llanelli half-back to switch codes four years ago , said : ‘ I have not been in touch with Widnes about Jonathan Davies and it has never been discussed by our board . ’ |
| 26 | Laughton , the former Widnes boss who first tempted the ex-Llanelli half-back star to switch codes for a record £250,000 fee four years ago , said : ‘ I have not been in touch with Widnes about Jonathan Davies and it has never been discussed by our board . |
| 27 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 28 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |
| 29 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 30 | It has never been the Queen 's style to rant and rave when things have gone wrong — and in truth she has never needed to . |