Example sentences of "[noun] have never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine all these Madness fans have never felt an emotion in their life . |
| 2 | Grammar , secondary modern and technical schools in England and Wales ( and , with different terminology , in Scotland and Northern Ireland — see below ) form what is called the tripartite system , though in reality technical schools have never existed in large numbers . |
| 3 | Stewart Island , the southern extremity of New Zealand , is a place that most Kiwis have never visited , but one which it is quite possible for PPLs to fly in to . |
| 4 | ‘ The kids have never looked back . |
| 5 | Like thousands of avid but non-academic readers , some powerful literary critics in the United States have never read , and are proud to say so , any African-American text . |
| 6 | Through their long history the echinoderms have never left the sea , but within their preferred medium they have adopted most of the life habits available to marine organisms . |
| 7 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 8 | The right to have an independent determination arises when negotiations between the parties have broken down ; but what if the parties have never tried to agree ? |
| 9 | Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms . |
| 10 | It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact . |
| 11 | He was sometimes difficult , often distrustful and the scars of a thousand press knives have never healed . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh well , you see , the truth of the matter is that dragons have never existed as you ( and , until I was poisoned some three months ago , I ) understand existence . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 14 | The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races . |
| 15 | It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them . |
| 16 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 17 | The club have never had a better side . |
| 18 | Many youngsters have never known the satisfaction of being handed a wage packet and it can be so soul destroying for them . |
| 19 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 20 | The relevant provisions of the 1968 Act have never applied in the magistrates ' court and , apart from those proceedings covered by the 1991 Order , hearsay evidence is only admissible on very limited grounds . |
| 21 | I see what they mean when they say the Mediterranean countries have never missed out on a female god . |
| 22 | Left-wing and right-wing , labour and management have never wavered from the pursuit of economic growth . |
| 23 | Hardly surprisingly , given the size of the market , most of these texts have never gone beyond their first editions . |
| 24 | Well you can see how new it is cos the cupboards have never had nothing in them I do n't think cos they 're just , there 's not a mark in them . |
| 25 | It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy . |
| 26 | That is the reality of what er Mike said and I 'm sorry he pinched my line politics is the art of the possible and that is a message I 'm afraid that the Conservatives on this council have never adopted . |
| 27 | Orkney Islands Council have never developed guidelines of their own . |
| 28 | Current newcomers to the sport have never had it so easy . |
| 29 | Fellow orchid-collectors at home have never seen this foreign one before . |
| 30 | Furthermore the judges have never relished answering hypothetical points . |