Example sentences of "never [verb] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |
| 2 | There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems . |
| 3 | ‘ That could never have been John . |
| 4 | To go on with , in the former days , between the Great War and the Second World War , there would never have been men working on cars in the street , as if the place were a communal garage . |
| 5 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 6 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 7 | " … the Church Yard of Kilmeny is quite open , never having been Inclosed. & that besides the Indecency thereof , the Grave Stones are much Injured by Horses and Cattle pasturing thereon … " ask for an estimate for building a stone wall . |
| 8 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 9 | I wondered whether Robert and Lili had spoken so often like this that neither had any longer the energy to shout , or whether there never had been anger between them . |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |