Example sentences of "never [been] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The importance of a low cell-count has never been so critical . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw it in the paper , and I 've never been so pleased about anything in all my life . ’ |
| 3 | While I 'm not a rugby union man myself , I 've never been so pleased to see Will Carling and the boys get an award . |
| 4 | ‘ Going Our Separate Ways We 've Never Been So Close ’ said the caption boldly . |
| 5 | ‘ I have never been so close to resigning from the force , ’ Morton said slowly . |
| 6 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 7 | Please give me some hope , ’ he urged , ‘ because , apart from the certainty in my heart that miluji të , I have never been so uncertain , so apprehensive at any time in my life . ’ |
| 8 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 9 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 10 | She declares , ‘ I am a nun now , I have never been so pure . ’ |
| 11 | Getting laid has never been so cheap in all history . |
| 12 | With Michelle Pfeiffer 's rubber-clad Catwoman whipping up a frenzy at the box office , S&M has never been so chic . |
| 13 | I was nervous in the dressing room but once on the pitch and with the thrill of being presented to the Princess Royal it felt just great and I have never been so proud in my life , especially when I saw my sister , Kirsty , up in the stand . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 15 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 16 | Whether it is viewed as a physical or metaphysical symbol , the image has never been so degraded as it is today . |
| 17 | ‘ Grammar has never been so easy to teach . ’ |
| 18 | Removing unwanted hair has never been so simple . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never been so tired in all my life , ’ sighs the whey-faced spinster , and Williams is wryly sympathetic to her plight : unlike Greta Garbo , who uttered that same line in Grand Hotel , she has no possibility of romantic regeneration . |
| 20 | She thought she had never been so tired . |
| 21 | It seemed to Harry that he had never been so tired . |
| 22 | Doreen , loyal to her role of concubine , had tried to cheer him up by saying that it had never been so good . |
| 23 | And they say it 's never been so good ! |
| 24 | ’ Never been so many , here . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never been so fortunate . ’ |
| 26 | It had never been so low , and by then virtually the whole of the ( non-Neath ) rest of Welsh rugby was pulling against the national team . |
| 27 | In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’ |
| 28 | Yes houses have never been so affordable , but confidence equally , has never been so low . |
| 29 | Paige had never been so relieved to hear that voice . |
| 30 | As Brian Richards says , the range of techniques for improving movement in cities has never been so great . |