Example sentences of "have never been [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 3 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 4 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Traditional leadership of the kind provided by the landed classes had never been significant in antislavery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To which Robert replied that he had never been interested in photography . |
| 10 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm I have to say that most of the people that come to us have never been involved in advertising . |
| 13 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |
| 14 | As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait . |