Example sentences of "never have [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee was a harebrained and quite unnecessary enterprise and the case against the president that eventually forced his resignation could never have been constructed without the re-installation of recording devices in the Oval Office . |
| 2 | Sadly for Mr Harford , the £11m would never have been given to the Labour county council by this Government . |
| 3 | The balance between industrial demand , speculation and monetary needs could probably never have been achieved in the inflationary context of the time . |
| 4 | Among those who found wartime location shooting refreshing was the actor Michael Redgrave who credited much of the quality in The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ) , Asquith 's atmospheric picture about life on an airforce base , to ‘ the atmosphere of those three weeks at Catterick , which could never have been created in the studio . ’ |
| 5 | Mr George Kynock reclaimed the seat most Conservatives felt should never have been lost in the first place . |
| 6 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 7 | Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest . |
| 8 | I realise from his point of view his company would be a quarter of a million better off if they could prove it should never have been paid in the first place , but … it is my mother he was talking about dammit ! ’ |
| 9 | In my view I should never have been admitted to the about being over 18 . |
| 10 | The claims of democracy would never have been admitted in the present liberal democracies had those countries not got a solid basis of liberalism first . |
| 11 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 12 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |
| 13 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 14 | As a result , the Government backed off , and the new regulation , which should never have been proposed in the first place , was ignominiously withdrawn . |
| 15 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 16 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |