Example sentences of "have never have " in BNC.

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1 Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity .
2 She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to .
3 After all , at a time when the British musical was despised , he did write , direct and star in several notable exceptions to the rule — a sort of Kenneth Branagh of the early Sixties , except that Branagh 's yet to take Broadway , does n't compose music , and has never had a No 1 record .
4 Laing has never had any problems about getting to grips with long-term strategy .
5 She has never had to advertise any of her products because ‘ the shops and the product are the best advertisement ’ .
6 Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees .
7 Corduroy has never had much cachet , despite the derivation of its name — corde du roi , the king 's cord .
8 ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics .
9 The American Left has never had a solid basis .
10 The consequence is that Britain has never had truly free broadcasting .
11 Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment .
12 She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks .
13 The boy who began to convert souls while our future rectors and curates were deep in criticism , history and examination subjects , and who has never had time to go to school or university since , is not impeccable in taste .
14 ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly .
15 One argument states that the Latin American bourgeoisie has never had sufficient capital to promote the economic development it wanted and has , therefore , had to import capital .
16 If she has never had the smallpox to sign a paper to leave the service if she has them . ’
17 Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder .
18 For a dog who has never had a collar , a check chain can be quite frightening .
19 An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images .
20 ‘ The difference between Manchester and Liverpool groups is that Liverpool has never had a university tradition . ’
21 It has never had any papers circulated to it and never met .
22 This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup .
23 Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters .
24 Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court .
25 Bishop Jim Thompson , in Half Way , comments : ‘ The homosexual who has never had a physical relationship , because of religious conviction , or fear , or lack of opportunity , can be subject to the same panic in midlife as the heterosexual spinster or bachelor .
26 The young nobleman , Gontran de Boismassif , has just married his equally youthful cousin , but is suddenly acutely conscious that he has never had the facts of life explained to him , and neither his bride nor his tutor ( likewise innocent ) are of any assistance .
27 Since 1980 the Theatre Collection has mounted an exhibition every year , but to many people 's surprise and regret , it has never had a permanent display area of its own .
28 Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before .
29 She has never had a stronger string of horses and must be a runner for our Olympic team .
30 In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors .
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