Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
6 Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger .
7 The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe .
8 England have never been beaten in this contest against Scotland , Wales and Ireland .
9 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 .
10 ‘ You are talking about a sea which has never been crossed in living memory .
11 He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica .
12 I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin .
13 He was a , got a record number of goals for Walsall in the season , it 's never been broken to this day erm .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Such assiduous attention has never been directed at this market before .
18 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 .
19 Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before .
20 This has never been shown for prostatic cancer .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity .
24 ‘ I have never been considered in any way ; it was always yourself .
25 Our objective is to expose those treatments in orthodox medicine that have never been subjected to rigorous testing to prove their safety and effectiveness .
26 The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms .
27 ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie .
28 As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered .
29 That fact that , since Vendelin Gajdusek had apparently never been interviewed by any journalist , he would not see anything out of the ordinary in her particular interviewing technique .
30 It is fairly rare these days to find adults who have never been interviewed in any survey .
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