Example sentences of "never been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 2 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 3 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 4 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 5 | The Duchess had never been liked by many courtiers and members of the Royal Household since the day of the engagement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 8 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 9 | At about 0230 hours the fishing vessel-cum-yacht Guiding Lights , which had figured on our suspect list since 1974 , but had never been sighted in British waters , sailed into the trap , heaving-to off Talland Bay , about half a mile off shore . |
| 10 | England have never been beaten in this contest against Scotland , Wales and Ireland . |
| 11 | All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 . |
| 12 | ‘ You are talking about a sea which has never been crossed in living memory . |
| 13 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 14 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 15 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 16 | He was a , got a record number of goals for Walsall in the season , it 's never been broken to this day erm . |
| 17 | Although it is common knowledge that dogs have been extensively employed in times of war , most people imagine that the cat has never been exploited in this way . |
| 18 | Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible . |
| 19 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 20 | The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be . |
| 21 | His friends have confirmed that , unlike other Hollywood stars ( Michael Douglas , Warren Beatty ) , he has never been drawn to backstage machinations , has never been obsessed with the art of the deal . |
| 22 | While emphasizing that he was a health expert rather than an engineer , Professor McDonald was most reassuring , citing Canadian evidence which he claimed showed that asbestosis and lung cancer had never been associated with environmental exposure to asbestos in the general community and were in fact confined to workers in the industry . |
| 23 | The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way . |
| 24 | The monoplacophorans really reached their acme in the Cambrian , with curious forms having shapes that have never been paralleled in other molluscs ( Yochelcionella ) . |
| 25 | Such assiduous attention has never been directed at this market before . |
| 26 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 27 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |
| 28 | This has never been shown for prostatic cancer . |
| 29 | To scholars of contemporary art , this material will be known from exhibitions at Paula Cooper in New York and from a survey shown at the Jeu de Paume , Paris , and at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid , in 1991–92 , but his work has never been shown in such depth in London . |
| 30 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |