Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 the Government accepted the Report , though it has never been debated in Parliament . |
| 2 | If we take seriously the notion of ‘ unlimited number ’ , there must be , for any lexical form , potential senses which have never been realised in use : equally , every lexical form has at least one relatively well-utilised sense . |
| 3 | The problem was that the provisions of the Coal Act had never been tested in court . |
| 4 | Four hundred aircraft from fifty airforces , fourteen aerobatic teams , some planes which have never been seen in Britain before . |
| 5 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 6 | The principle of popular sovereignty has never been accepted in Britain : instead sovereignty is shared between Parliament and an hereditary monarch . |
| 7 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 8 | He had , after all , been an officer during the war , albeit one who had never been tried in battle . |
| 9 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 10 | Such cells have never been described in Vl ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 11 | These have never been used in studies with humans . |
| 12 | Most of the display has never been used in anger , or self defence . |
| 13 | It would be as if he had never been taken in treason . |
| 14 | However , in many years of examination of ancient jewellery , cadmium has never been found in pieces from excavation , or from otherwise unimpeachable sources , but only in pieces that were suspect on other grounds . |
| 15 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |