Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] never been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ? |
| 2 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 3 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 4 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 5 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 6 | This will help us to get beyond the phase of advocacy of " tolerance " which has never been adequate on its own . |
| 7 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 8 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 9 | A woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as nulligravida ; a woman pregnant first time as primigravida , and at later pregnancies as multigravida ( see pregnancy order ) . |
| 10 | The act of prostitution itself has never been illegal . |
| 11 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 12 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 13 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 14 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 15 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 16 | ‘ She 's never been married , damn you ! ’ |
| 17 | She 's never been involved with another woman ! ’ |
| 18 | She 's never been able to afford the upkeep of it . |
| 19 | A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel . |
| 20 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 21 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for South Ribble ( Mr. Atkins ) says that he will be among those abolished , but he has already abolished himself — there has never been such a secret and silent Minister for Sport . |
| 23 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 24 | In fact there has never been two-shift working at Kalmar and , because of the downturn in the car market after the 1973 oil price rise , production has rarely reached 30,000 per year at that plant . |
| 25 | You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft . |
| 26 | Osnafeld is a British subject , a financier of sorts who has sailed very close to the wind on a number of occasions , but there has never been enough evidence to proceed against him . |
| 27 | But there has never been self-doubt . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 29 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 30 | Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects . |