Example sentences of "have never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the schools the needs for AIDS education has never been greater . |
| 2 | The need for a national and international AIDS charity has never been greater . |
| 3 | Effective prevention has never been more urgently needed , especially in schools . |
| 4 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 8 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 9 | For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear . |
| 10 | This will be a show the like of which has never been seen . |
| 11 | Mais r-r-rien de plus ! ’ ; and on the other , and also out of his own mouth , ‘ sponging has never been the guiding principle of my actions . |
| 12 | Standardisation has never been the IT industry 's strong point , and the answer is ‘ probably not ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 14 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 15 | ‘ Research ’ in English has never been easy to define . |
| 16 | But the word ‘ politics ’ itself needs to be deconstructed , since politics is to do with our ideals of what human life should be , about which there has never been agreement ; indeed , it is out of the disagreement that politics arises . |
| 17 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 18 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 19 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 20 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 21 | The Pope , a conservative whose grip on the reins of power has never been firmer , is setting off on a tour of the Far East on Friday . |
| 22 | But the Arab nationalist belief that the two countries contain one Arab people — that there was therefore something immutably wrong in the creation of Greater Lebanon — has never been abandoned . |
| 23 | The change in the Christian community from the largest community to minority status has never been officially acknowledged in Lebanese statistics . |
| 24 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 25 | For members of the society it has never been so important to know these things . |
| 26 | The identity of the under-bidder has never been revealed . |
| 27 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 28 | The other half of his ambition has never been in doubt . |
| 29 | Economic management has never been Labour 's strong point . |
| 30 | His election campaigns were notorious for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the depth of his involvement has never been clear . |