Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the barriers were back in place , as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all . |
| 2 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 3 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 4 | The notion of randomness is especially unclear , in the sense that it has never been defined in any consistent way . |
| 5 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 6 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 7 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 8 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 9 | He had never been charged with any criminal offence . |
| 10 | It was a marvellous victory even Parsons , who had stopped all his previous opponents in the first round , admitted : ‘ I 've never been hit like that in my life . ’ |
| 11 | It seems that a course of dealing can be established even though the terms have never been incorporated into any of the contracts between the parties . |
| 12 | The Duchess had never been liked by many courtiers and members of the Royal Household since the day of the engagement . |
| 13 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 14 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 15 | The Memorandum and Articles in question have never been altered from those that were first registered , save for an amendment increasing the company 's authorised share capital . |
| 16 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 17 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 18 | England have never been beaten in this contest against Scotland , Wales and Ireland . |
| 19 | England have never been beaten in this annual event , but the Scots will be aiming to retain second place ahead of Ireland and Wales . |
| 20 | Course not he 's never drunk in his life never been drunk at all not even |
| 21 | If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out . |
| 22 | Specific allegations have never been made against any of these groups . |
| 23 | All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 . |
| 24 | I 've never been treated like this before . ’ |
| 25 | Edward had never been treated like this before , and he felt dazed , swoonlike . |
| 26 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 27 | He was a , got a record number of goals for Walsall in the season , it 's never been broken to this day erm . |
| 28 | Although it is common knowledge that dogs have been extensively employed in times of war , most people imagine that the cat has never been exploited in this way . |
| 29 | Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order . |
| 30 | They have never been reformulated in such a way as to incorporate the consequences of the internationalization of media ownership and content . |