Example sentences of "have never been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands . |
| 2 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 3 | Hoyle , Still active today , has never been scared of iconoclasm . |
| 4 | ‘ Israel , ’ says one senior official , ‘ has never been interested in emigration as such , but in aliya — in having as many Jews as possible come to Israel . ’ |
| 5 | First-rate opera has never been free from controversy ; but managing London 's premier opera house in the 17605 was a particularly hazardous occupation , especially as there was no formal state subsidy and the impresario was personally responsible for the finances . |
| 6 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 7 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 8 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 9 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
| 10 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 11 | Despite her love of the dramatic , Luce had never been over-keen on surprises . |
| 12 | Uncle Bob said he could remember , from when they were boys , Tom had never been keen on cats . |
| 13 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 14 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 15 | Yet Joseph knew that he was right to have his armaments in place : you could never trust the gypsies or the tinkers — against each other , let alone anyone else : quacks , drunks and ranters would drift from their positions in the line and cause trouble just by bumping into the orderly armada of hill folk who knew how to hold steady but had never been fond of strangers . |
| 16 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 17 | Traditional leadership of the kind provided by the landed classes had never been significant in antislavery . |
| 18 | He had never been short of girl-friends , not at university anyway . |
| 19 | Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages . |
| 20 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 21 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 22 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 23 | To which Robert replied that he had never been interested in photography . |
| 24 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 25 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 26 | Edward 's downfall had been sudden and complete ; yet its instigators , the queen and Mortimer , had never been popular in England and had enjoyed little if any overt support there until they landed in September 1326 . |
| 27 | Most children who suffer from day wetting have primary enuresis , that is they have never been dry by day . |
| 28 | Erm I have to say that most of the people that come to us have never been involved in advertising . |
| 29 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |
| 30 | But then , city dwellers have never been long on modesty . |