Example sentences of "has never be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This fact , plus the ubiquitous veil of secrecy which covers military matters , has fuelled suspicion that the link has never been thoroughly broken and that plutonium produced in civil reactors has found its way into the military stockpiles .
2 But , true to its timid traditions , the English crimi nal justice system still excludes these videos from court hearings be cause of the hearsay rule ; a rule which has never been definitively formulated but which crudely pre vents statements made out of court by a witness to someone else being admissible .
3 In spite of Caroline Tisdall 's marvellous study of his art which was held at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979 , this complex man has never been widely known nor understood by an American audience .
4 He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions .
5 As an organizational system , managerial hierarchy has never been adequately described and has just as certainly never been adequately used .
6 A loose association of artists , writers , composers , filmmakers and performers , Fluxus has never been satisfactorily defined and has fitted awkwardly into broader surveys of the period of its more energetic activity .
7 The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 :
8 Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now .
9 Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form .
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