Example sentences of "[verb] never [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 2 | Although it is common knowledge that dogs have been extensively employed in times of war , most people imagine that the cat has never been exploited in this way . |
| 3 | In actual practice , except when its life was extended in the World Wars , that limit has never been reached in modern times . |
| 4 | ‘ You are talking about a sea which has never been crossed in living memory . |
| 5 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 6 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 7 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible . |
| 10 | Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order . |
| 11 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The notion of randomness is especially unclear , in the sense that it has never been defined in any consistent way . |
| 14 | The population has remained between 300 to 400 , as the village has never been designated for large residential development . |
| 15 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 16 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 17 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 18 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 19 | Such assiduous attention has never been directed at this market before . |
| 20 | The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way . |
| 21 | Yet the story of the development of the city 's housing schemes has never been told in full , and particularly not from the point of view of the original tenants . |
| 22 | It has never been equalled on this scale . |
| 23 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This has never been shown for prostatic cancer . |
| 26 | To scholars of contemporary art , this material will be known from exhibitions at Paula Cooper in New York and from a survey shown at the Jeu de Paume , Paris , and at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid , in 1991–92 , but his work has never been shown in such depth in London . |
| 27 | Its chair , Professor John Knill , described the Ministry of Defence land as " an effectively pristine platform " , since much of it has never been subjected to modern agricultural techniques . |
| 28 | Mary Leapor has never been forgotten among local historians and scholars in Northamptonshire . |
| 29 | But for confirming the General Secretary 's position as Chairman , the full membership of the Defence Council has never been identified in open Soviet sources . |
| 30 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |