Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was in the British amateur team for three years — which Pottz never was . |
| 2 | This will be a show the like of which has never been seen . |
| 3 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 4 | But , true to its timid traditions , the English crimi nal justice system still excludes these videos from court hearings be cause of the hearsay rule ; a rule which has never been definitively formulated but which crudely pre vents statements made out of court by a witness to someone else being admissible . |
| 5 | In the 1770s Sir Christopher Sykes literally ‘ clothed the wolds ’ , a bleak stretch of land 500 feet above sea level , and set an example of how to plant trees and how to create farmland which has never been surpassed . |
| 6 | There seems little point in saying that teething is a non-existent condition which has never reliably been shown to cause any distress . |
| 7 | It is the occasional unknown specimen which can prove unnerving , the creature which has never been seen before in any swamp or tropical rainforest , mountain cave , zoo or bestiary … |
| 8 | The successive run of seven is unique in cricket history — unequalled even by Yorkshire , which has never exceeded a sequence of four . |
| 9 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 10 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 11 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 12 | This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup . |
| 13 | But one facet of the Wild West which has never been part of our social scene is surfacing now in cinematographic form . |
| 14 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 15 | They would know the real meaning of religious freedom , something which has never really existed throughout religious history . |
| 16 | BOUZY : An isolated patch of loess and granular decalcified chalk immediately west of the village , much of which has never been viticultivated , otherwise completely Belemnite chalk . |
| 17 | The trouble is , it 's usually the family which has never owned a dog before that reacts with hostility to would-be helping hands . |
| 18 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 19 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 20 | The hidden agenda , which has never been properly discussed , was an attempt by American superagent Mark McCormack to muscle into the world of FI via Didier Pironi , then president of the drivers ' association . |
| 21 | Still , there is an alternative tradition in Western thought , one which has never become ‘ official ’ but which nevertheless arises spontaneously from experience . |
| 22 | But the Wallabies ' World Cup campaign and ultimate victory has resulted in a nationwide level of rugby union interest which has never been previously registered . |
| 23 | The Louvre received an extraordinarily rich array of material from this region , most of which has never before been loaned . |
| 24 | The latter was a heavy weapon which has never been used , since it would involve the removal of the whole Commission if an Assembly vote of no confidence gained a two-thirds majority . |
| 25 | This is an area of the Empire which has never really been tamed . |
| 26 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 27 | Unix System Laboratories , which has never officially been part of X/Open though it 's had a lot of informal dealings with it , is also expected to take advantage of the new technical membership and sign up . |
| 28 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 29 | That gamble may not be unconnected to the old England-Australia veto power , which has never been employed but still offends the newer Test nations . |
| 30 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |