Example sentences of "never been [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea . |
| 3 | There have never been any women chief constables , and women are in general at the lower levels of the police force . |
| 4 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 5 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 6 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 7 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |