Example sentences of "never [adv] been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 2 | ‘ Both the settlers and the natives assured me ’ , wrote Gould , ‘ that they [ the bronzewings ] had suddenly arrived , and that they had never before been seen in that part of the country . |
| 3 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 4 | Miss Joyce could not afford to sue for libel , for which Legal Aid is not available , so she chose the ancient legal route of malicious falsehood which IS covered by legal aid but has never before been used in this way . |
| 5 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 6 | The classy eight-year-old has never before been entered in either race . |
| 7 | But since , technically , she 'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less . |
| 8 | Certain principles have never yet been contested in any court of law so that precedent for their consideration has never been laid down . |