Example sentences of "never [been] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 2 | Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes . |
| 3 | His Oxfordshire-based Williams team are looking for their fifth consecutive Grand Prix win … a feat which has never been achieved in the history of the sport . |
| 4 | The basic problem is that , unlike other courses in this field , they have never been given into the care and custody of a national body so that there is no established basis for recognition , either as equivalent to qualifications at a similar level in other fields or as a stage leading to higher level courses . |
| 5 | They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite . |
| 6 | They were hoping to create a little election history in Belfast , where brothers have never been elected to the city council at the same time . |
| 7 | Now that has never been denied by the leader of that council , although he keeps on , it is not Thamesdown 's policy . |
| 8 | He also made some excellent pictures of the floating city of Bangkok and its inhabitants , which had never been seen in the west . |
| 9 | The abundant rains that came in the weeks previous to Gould 's arrival had attracted birds in their thousands , some nf which had never been seen in the area before . |
| 10 | She liked their life together , and her conscience had never been troubled by the knowledge of where their wealth came from . |
| 11 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 12 | Well it 's never been serviced since the day we bought it and that must be a good ten years ago . |
| 13 | Defence counsel Roderick Carus , QC , said proper records had never been kept by the Welfare Scheme . |
| 14 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 15 | This aspect of Jewish intellectual life has never been treated with the attention it deserves . |
| 16 | It is only in remote areas which have never been exposed to the infection that the problem occurs . |
| 17 | It has never been listed in the Journal . |
| 18 | Local Labour parties were subject to a centralized control which had never been exerted over the ILP or over individual unions . |
| 19 | The Court held that the acceptance of oral petitions would be legitimate , although this power had never been granted by the Council of the League , was not directly authorised by the mandate agreement , and was strongly objected to by all the mandatory powers . |
| 20 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 21 | But its policies have never been attacked on the basis of her leadership . |
| 22 | Mr Brown said it was ‘ included only under the broadest heading — Treasury running costs — was never drawn to the attention of the Audit Office as a special feature and has never been investigated by the Audit Office , something which should now happen ’ . |
| 23 | As this has never been attempted by the Department , there is no experience to guide such actions . |
| 24 | The majority of works in ‘ From the Treasuries of Eurasia : Masterpieces of Ancient Art ’ have never been shown in the West before . |
| 25 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 26 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
| 27 | I have often read that the use of fish knives is considered passé , and that they have never been used by the aristocracy . |
| 28 | Tartan , the style most commonly associated with Scotland , had never been produced in the Borders before 1826 . |
| 29 | The North have never been whitewashed in the Championship , but they now look vulnerable as injuries , defections and selection switches have deprived them of a consistent team . |
| 30 | Charlie had never been wounded on the Somme . |