Example sentences of "never [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 2 | The First Law of Thermodynamics basically states that energy has never been observed to be created or destroyed . |
| 3 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 4 | Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes . |
| 5 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 6 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 7 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 8 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 9 | His Oxfordshire-based Williams team are looking for their fifth consecutive Grand Prix win … a feat which has never been achieved in the history of the sport . |
| 10 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 11 | Now the barriers were back in place , as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all . |
| 12 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 13 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 14 | The notion of randomness is especially unclear , in the sense that it has never been defined in any consistent way . |
| 15 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 16 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 17 | Henry II has never been heard of in Israel ( see chapter 3 ) . |
| 18 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 19 | The simple truth is that most captors of record fish were never heard of before their historical catch and have never been heard of since . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's plenty seen with men 's own eyes that 's never been heard of in heaven , ’ said Davide . |
| 21 | And as far as I know , Hamadan has never been heard of again from that day to this . |
| 22 | As far as she was concerned , Christine had simply left town and never been heard from again . |
| 23 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 24 | He has never been studied in a comprehensive exhibition in this country , although twenty-two oil paintings and fourteen works on paper were prominently included in ‘ The Essential Cubism ’ which Cooper curated , with Gary Tinterow , for the Tate Gallery in 1983 . |
| 25 | The basic problem is that , unlike other courses in this field , they have never been given into the care and custody of a national body so that there is no established basis for recognition , either as equivalent to qualifications at a similar level in other fields or as a stage leading to higher level courses . |
| 26 | The substance had never been given to animals before . |
| 27 | In common with other types of support which I have considered here it seems that practical help , even when on a fairly small scale , has never been given to relatives automatically and without some assessment being made of the wider social context . |
| 28 | Leith had never been kissed like it . |
| 29 | She had never been kissed by him in all the years she had known him — apart from a brotherly peck on the cheek . |
| 30 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |