Example sentences of "that has never " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 3 | An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images . |
| 4 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
| 5 | These ancient piles of stones , long known as the Three Men of Gragareth , have an origin beyond the memory of man : they stand side by side , mute sentinels overlooking a vast panorama that has never changed and never will . |
| 6 | In what must rank as one of the most petty letters ever to emerge from the SFA , an organisation that has never been known for its broad-mindedness , the secretary demanded that the ball be returned . |
| 7 | In a transaction that has never fully been explained , and to this day baffles Baxter , the two Scottish players handed over counterfeit Canadian dollars , and within hours were facing police accusations that they were involved in a forgery ring . |
| 8 | For some enterprising footballers like Celtic 's Harry Hood or Aberdeen 's Willie Miller , the pub is a business opportunity run to the highest standards , but for others it can be either a modest earner , an extension of their drinking or a desperate attempt to grab a livelihood from the cinders of football , an industry that has never fully protected the talent it exploits . |
| 9 | McMurdo never made the grade but like many Scots his early interest in the game ignited a flame of passion for football that has never been extinguished . |
| 10 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 11 | In fact they succeeded and there followed a sequence of events that has never been thoroughly recorded in full detail , though Stillman Drake has done his best . |
| 12 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 13 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 14 | There 's some great playing on it generally , and some amazing guitar work that has never been heard . |
| 15 | ‘ It would fill up Wembley , sell it out — a major heavyweight fight between two Britons , something that has never really happened before . ’ |
| 16 | I went one better and something happened that has never occurred in about 25 years of using the modern type of machine with yarn mast and tension spring . |
| 17 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 18 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 19 | The new space will also have galleries for Greek and Roman gems , part of a Met collection that has never been shown . |
| 20 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton can not run the risk of sending Americans into a war that has never engaged much public attention without congressional cover . |
| 22 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 23 | Although ‘ Moore Intime ’ had the cooperation of the Henry Moore Foundation , she reminded everyone of her diverging views in her speech at the inaugural dinner : ‘ I can see and feel the real Henry Moore in this exhibition in a way that has never before been achieved . |
| 24 | In the opinion of many , the finest eighteenth-century French furniture set a standard of quality and craftsmanship that has never been equalled though much emulated , appearing in such widely divergent mutations as John Henry Belter 's high Victorian rococo revival to the sleek Art Deco refinement of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann . |
| 25 | Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal . |
| 26 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 27 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
| 28 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 29 | At very long meetings , punctuated by the arrival of quite excellent sandwiches — for me the most unhealthy of all foodstuffs — I had to listen to the outpourings of the leading fanatics in the medical profession ; to the timorous intervention of the moderates ; and happily to the constant , wise and soothing interventions of Derek Damerell , the chief executive of BUPA , to whom the country owes a debt that has never received proper recognition . |
| 30 | If you find that the results are likely to be disastrous , and that the principles underlying it , which we detect not only from the official utterances of members of the Government but also from the more indiscreet explanations of so-called supporters of the government are pernicious and that the whole matter is one that has never been duly referred to the people of this country , then I venture to say that your Lordships have a clear duty before you — not to decree the final extinction of the Bill — because that is not what we propose , but to insist that before it becomes law an authoritative expression of the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom shall have reached us with regard to it . |