Example sentences of "have never [been] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public .
2 That document , completed last spring , has never been made public , but those who have had access to it assert that its main thrust was to give Scotland more rather than less autonomy .
3 There exists , then , a widespread method of recording such consultations , but hitherto such information has never been made use of , except as an evidential , archival document attached to the thesis .
4 Constance had never been given flowers before and she beamed with pleasure .
5 She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him .
6 In 1981 concerns over the way the Social Work Department operated led to an inquiry , the results of which have never been made public .
7 They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs .
8 Although there are difficulties involved in defining the business sector for accounting purposes , these difficulties have never been considered primary .
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