Example sentences of "there [verb] never [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 7 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 8 | Until recently there has never been any suggestion that the radioactive releases that took place then produced any serious health effects . |
| 9 | There has never been any animosity between us , that 's total rubbish . |
| 10 | But whatever the papers think , and whatever the English management says , there has never been any trouble between us and the English players . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | There has never been any question about that . |
| 13 | There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In America where the loose , cotton , mid-thigh-length male undergarment has consistently maintained its market share , there has never been any need to call these things anything but shorts . |
| 16 | There has never been any question of nuclear radiation seeping out . |
| 17 | There has never been any trouble . |
| 18 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal . |
| 21 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 22 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 23 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 24 | There had never been such a literary success in England . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 27 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |
| 28 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 29 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 30 | 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 . |