Example sentences of "have never [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There seems little point in saying that teething is a non-existent condition which has never reliably been shown to cause any distress . |
| 4 | C. P. Snow had been a scientist at Christ 's College , Cambridge before he turned to fiction ; William Golding , a Salisbury schoolteacher who gave up teaching with the success of Lord of the Flies , has never exactly written an academic fiction , but The Spire ( 1964 ) is about the enclosed scholastic world of medieval architecture . |
| 5 | She says she has never again felt so close to anyone , he was like an accomplice and brother . |
| 6 | Tom has infected at least 6 people — thought he has never even met Jane , Mark and Alan . |
| 7 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 8 | That 's ours are that one ours has never even been . |
| 9 | The exhibition includes Marcel Duchamp who has never previously been featured in an exhibition of American art . |
| 10 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 11 | The main thrust of Mr. Lester 's submissions for the defendants has never previously been considered in the context of libel . |
| 12 | For example , the question of whether accounting is or should be the same for a public limited company as for a private company has never unduly concerned accounting theorists . |
| 13 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 14 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 15 | Er the Residents ' Association erm feel that this examination in public is not the right forum to erm answer a question which has never properly been asked erm at the County Council . |
| 16 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 17 | The relationship between the band and the paper has never completely recovered . |
| 18 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 19 | This clause has never yet been activated . |
| 20 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 21 | Mr Perot has never yet chosen to give a straight reply to that point . |
| 22 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 23 | The issue of what might occur if the secession of a Member State were opposed by one or more of the others has never yet arisen . |
| 24 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 25 | But performance alone has never yet ensured the job of a French nationalised industry chairman . |
| 26 | No such a vote of no confidence has never yet been passed in a west European state . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet it remains important to take on board the intentions behind that approach : the global vision , the search for harmony , and the emphasis upon fairness to all religions , has never more been needed in the world than today . |
| 29 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 30 | As a result , it has never convincingly been able to counter the criticisms , which inevitably arose , when commonplace human capacity to apply intelligent questioning to proffered articles of faith , had become widespread and powerful enough to prevail above all dogma and superstition . |