Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 2 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 3 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 4 | In common with other types of support which I have considered here it seems that practical help , even when on a fairly small scale , has never been given to relatives automatically and without some assessment being made of the wider social context . |
| 5 | The substance had never been given to animals before . |
| 6 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
| 7 | In 1983 the Government accepted the Report , though it has never been debated in Parliament . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , I 've never been consumed with lust for the caress of a grey woollen glove . ’ |
| 10 | Rank and file members have never been consulted on support for this organisation , maintained Mr Hunter and recent research amongst the membership showed a substantial hostility to NALGO 's continued affiliation to the NAC , which among its disgraceful policies , calls for the destruction of the disabled by resort to eugenic abortion . |
| 11 | The problem was that the provisions of the Coal Act had never been tested in court . |
| 12 | Although earning power is , in effect , a franchise , it has never been recognized for balance sheet purposes … , except in the limited extent of purchased goodwill . |
| 13 | Thus the implications of the Eucharistic nature of the Church have never been recognized by Church authority in areas of an acute shortage of priests ; and when , in some of them , episcopal conferences have requested permission to ordain married men to ensure the maintenance of a minimum of regular Eucharistic celebration in local communities , they have been rebuffed by Rome . |
| 14 | The SDI engine has never been fitted to production Range Rovers , but an improved RR engine including some features found in the SDI engine was fitted in 1981 . |
| 15 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |
| 16 | Four hundred aircraft from fifty airforces , fourteen aerobatic teams , some planes which have never been seen in Britain before . |
| 17 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 18 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 19 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 20 | Miller insists he has never been motivated by money , and his days at Love Street were probably numbered from the time St Mirren allowed his then assistant , Drew Jarvie , to leave the club and join Dundee . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Its conformity with the regulations has never been called into question until now . ’ |
| 23 | They have never been influenced by public opinion in the past but perhaps these are exceptional times . |
| 24 | The principle of popular sovereignty has never been accepted in Britain : instead sovereignty is shared between Parliament and an hereditary monarch . |
| 25 | Apart from the forays of his brother-in-law , Charles Coxen , this area had never been explored for birds . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , I 've never been suspected of murder before . |
| 28 | Strangely for one who has been so successful , Charlie has never been inundated by offers from English trainers , although no doubt this is in the process of changing following those Cheltenham wins . |
| 29 | He had , after all , been an officer during the war , albeit one who had never been tried in battle . |
| 30 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |