Example sentences of "never [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the Residents ' Association erm feel that this examination in public is not the right forum to erm answer a question which has never properly been asked erm at the County Council . |
| 2 | These perceptions and feelings were to be examined qualitatively rather than by means of any standardised measures , since it was felt that such complex issues could not be ( or had never successfully been ) encapsulated in a standardised scale . |
| 3 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 4 | The asking of that question in 1962 brought problems about teaching and the curriculum into a sharper national focus , and into a context of Government and politics from which they have never since been dislodged . |
| 5 | Incidentally , I have never since been able to work such magic ! |
| 6 | I have never since been able to identify the cottage , but it was no hallucination . |
| 7 | The overwhelming blackness , the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning ; I 've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity . |
| 8 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 9 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 10 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 11 | Another girl commented that she had never ever been told she was beautiful , and believed strongly that all children should be told this by their parents . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a feeling now of cooperation which has never ever been in our system at this level before . |
| 13 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 14 | Never ever been out of a union er till I retired cos I always paid these fees and er yes . |
| 15 | and who have never ever been assertive oh well whatever you 're having I 'll have the same . |
| 16 | I have never ever been to Victoria Park . |
| 17 | So this woman she was lost , not because of what she 'd done , but because , simply , she had never ever been found , and Jesus had come to find her , he had come to rescue her , he had come to save her . |
| 18 | I 've never ever been at college after six o'clock , it was very exciting . |
| 19 | Yet it remains important to take on board the intentions behind that approach : the global vision , the search for harmony , and the emphasis upon fairness to all religions , has never more been needed in the world than today . |
| 20 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 21 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 22 | ‘ We have never before been able to run more than one senior men 's squad , yet now , thanks to Cellnet 's backing , we will have three to back the elite Davis Cup squad . |
| 23 | EIB money has never before been offered to Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | Never before had Ramsey run up against so formidable a Christian opponent , and never before been so forced to defend his biblical ideas . |
| 25 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 26 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 27 | She had never before been in the Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 28 | It has never before been more important to incorporate informed legal advice into corporate decision making . |
| 29 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 30 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |