Example sentences of "[verb] never [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There has never been any question about that .
2 There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out .
3 There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles .
4 I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario .
5 League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’
6 But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players .
7 There has never been any trouble .
8 There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish .
9 There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing .
10 There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal .
11 There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’
12 There has never been any corroboration .
13 Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects .
14 In the history of British participation in world-class events there has never been any recognition or backing on a national scale .
15 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 .
16 You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then .
17 Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see .
18 ‘ I 've never been this way before .
19 Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do .
20 Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before .
21 He had never been this way before .
22 There had never been enough money to dress the child properly and even if there had been they did n't have the style or the know-how .
23 There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron .
24 There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them .
25 There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else .
26 There had never been any doubt in my own mind .
27 The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them .
28 There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house .
29 Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account .
30 He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them .
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