Example sentences of "never [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have never been any women chief constables , and women are in general at the lower levels of the police force . |
| 32 | ‘ Never been any sign of them , but I never swim far out anyway . ’ |
| 33 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 34 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 35 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ There 's never been any shortage of pocket money in this house . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ There 's never been any kind of attraction between me and To — ’ She stopped , seeing the darkness in his eyes and understanding it . |
| 38 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 39 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |
| 40 | There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else . |
| 41 | There had never been any doubt in my own mind . |
| 42 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 43 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 44 | But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players . |
| 45 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 46 | There has never been any trouble . |
| 47 | To the National Defence Council he asserted that of course there had never been any intention of abandoning the Right Bank . |
| 48 | Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects . |
| 49 | There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing . |
| 50 | In the history of British participation in world-class events there has never been any recognition or backing on a national scale . |
| 51 | With Chantal there had never been any need for pretence . |
| 52 | There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal . |
| 53 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 54 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 55 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 57 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 58 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 59 | There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish . |
| 60 | Yet language difficulties have never been insurmountable barriers . |