Example sentences of "have never been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |
| 2 | George has shown this to be a satisfactory option , reporting a five year survival of 80% , but this has never been compared in a randomised controlled trial with a treatment regimen . |
| 3 | Fortunately there are now many people who think this is wrong , and they do so mainly for the same reason , that is , because the ‘ god ’ spoken of has never been explained in a manner which they themselves can easily understand and believe in . |
| 4 | Mikhail Budyko , the most revered figure of Soviet climatology , has never been noted as a cold war warrior , but he has always been aware of the limitations imposed on the Soviet Union by its climate . |
| 5 | He has never been studied in a comprehensive exhibition in this country , although twenty-two oil paintings and fourteen works on paper were prominently included in ‘ The Essential Cubism ’ which Cooper curated , with Gary Tinterow , for the Tate Gallery in 1983 . |
| 6 | Charles has never been cast as a Good King in the nation-building mould of his contemporary Alfred of Wessex : he would surely not have minded — for he was a Frank , not a Frenchman . |
| 7 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 8 | Our partnership has never been aimed at a resourcing of the school in a material sense , but has focused on the educational experiences of students and their provision at the highest quality possible . |
| 9 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
| 10 | Evidence from Sweden , where enteriditis has never been found in a poultry flock , shows food poisoning in humans exactly matches the UK profile and , in percentage terms , is running at a higher rate . |
| 11 | That is incorrect , the report has never been considered by a committee of the County Council or indeed by the County Council . |
| 12 | Although he 'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant . |
| 13 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 14 | He had never been kept in a cell , unlike Sontag and Jacobsen , but in various different apartments where the conditions were always similar : a comfortable mattress on the floor , books to read , and occasionally , a television to watch . |
| 15 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 16 | On April 10 the opposition Movement for Development and Democracy ( MDD ) , which had never been recognized as a political party , had stated that more than 40 people , including the MDD leader Goukouni Guët , had been arrested in February in neighbouring Nigeria and extradited to Chad at the request of the Chadian government . |
| 17 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 18 | For them , however , there was no single champion who had forged a South Slav empire which flourished before the arrival of the alien invaders , for until 1918 the Yugoslav peoples had never been united in a single state . |
| 19 | She had never been manoeuvred into a situation like this before . |
| 20 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 21 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
| 22 | He knew that his brother-in-law had never been associated with a controversial or political activity at any time and that , if the files were genuine , his one would contain exactly nothing . |
| 23 | Bernini is evidently attempting to render something quite transcendental and something which had never been attempted by a sculptor before that date . |
| 24 | Dot had never been hugged by a stranger . |
| 25 | In fact , many people in Broadmoor have never been convicted of a serious crime , or indeed ever committed a criminal offence . ) |
| 26 | Years of trial work resulted in the discovery that organo- mercury seed treatments would control these seed-borne diseases , and from the 1940's their use has become so universal that such devastating diseases have never been witnessed by a generation or two of farmers . |
| 27 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 28 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 29 | Similarly , Italian unions have never been organised on a craft or occupational basis ( apart from a few exceptional cases ) . |