Example sentences of "have never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom has infected at least 6 people — thought he has never even met Jane , Mark and Alan . |
| 2 | In the schools the needs for AIDS education has never been greater . |
| 3 | The need for a national and international AIDS charity has never been greater . |
| 4 | Effective prevention has never been more urgently needed , especially in schools . |
| 5 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 6 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 7 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 8 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 9 | When Arthur Guinness started to brew porter in his Dublin brewery he created an insatiable demand for his beer that has never waned in Ireland . |
| 10 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 11 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 12 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 13 | It may also be the reason why , in its forty-year history , the Police Staff College has never achieved any real academic status ; for , as Lewis ( ibid. 183 ) also points out : |
| 14 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 15 | For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear . |
| 16 | But for many , the idea of selling those treasured pieces at a major sale has never crossed their mind ; either that , or they just do n't know how to do so . |
| 17 | This will be a show the like of which has never been seen . |
| 18 | Mais r-r-rien de plus ! ’ ; and on the other , and also out of his own mouth , ‘ sponging has never been the guiding principle of my actions . |
| 19 | Standardisation has never been the IT industry 's strong point , and the answer is ‘ probably not ’ . |
| 20 | However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 22 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 23 | ‘ Research ’ in English has never been easy to define . |
| 24 | But the word ‘ politics ’ itself needs to be deconstructed , since politics is to do with our ideals of what human life should be , about which there has never been agreement ; indeed , it is out of the disagreement that politics arises . |
| 25 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 26 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 27 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 28 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 29 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 30 | This clause has never yet been activated . |