Example sentences of "never been [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 4 | Apart from the forays of his brother-in-law , Charles Coxen , this area had never been explored for birds . |
| 5 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
| 6 | However we interpret the phrase it is too general : there are many " contes à rire en vers " that have never been taken for fabliaux . |
| 7 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 8 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 9 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |