Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
6 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
7 | England have never been beaten in this contest against Scotland , Wales and Ireland . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
10 | He was a , got a record number of goals for Walsall in the season , it 's never been broken to this day erm . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Such assiduous attention has never been directed at this market before . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ I have never been considered in any way ; it was always yourself . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It is fairly rare these days to find adults who have never been interviewed in any survey . |
24 | It has never been equalled on this scale . |