Example sentences of "never been a " 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 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 3 | I 've never been a trade union man myself , never saw the point , but in terms of research and analysis I found the field a fascinating one . |
| 4 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 5 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 6 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 7 | I had never been a prime minister before . |
| 8 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 9 | He had never been a patient of mine before . ’ |
| 10 | Simon Creese-Parsons , who sells fine decorative pieces at Jadis , reckons : ‘ There 's never been a better time to buy . ’ |
| 11 | In the one Eastern Europe country where the communists had some claim to popular legitimacy in the past , opposition spokesmen freely proclaim : ‘ Czechoslovakia has never been a communist country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have never been a Marxist . |
| 14 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 15 | Summer has never been a sufficient compensation for his excesses . |
| 16 | ( Though the city has never been a paradise , especially in warm weather . |
| 17 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 18 | Phileas Fogg 's Mexican tortilla chips , Thai chicken satay with peanut dip , French prawn and garlic vol-au-vents , and sundry other delicacies from countries where halitosis has never been a social no-no . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 22 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 23 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've never been a real emotional team , win or lose . |
| 26 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 27 | There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism . |
| 28 | She said to me , ‘ Frankly , like you Dame Edna , the physical aspect of interpersonal relations has never been a big thing with me . ’ |
| 29 | Groupies have never been a realistic proposition because the group 's entourage is largely made up of girlfriends . |
| 30 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |