Example sentences of "which have never [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The successive run of seven is unique in cricket history — unequalled even by Yorkshire , which has never exceeded a sequence of four .
2 ( Ironically , but also significantly , one is from a school which has never received a project grant and the other from a school which received a retrospective Minor grant some time before the deputy head herself took up her post . )
3 They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value .
4 Also there is something more dangerous still , a stirring of youth , disappointed , aggrieved youth , which has never known the discipline of war .
5 The trouble is , it 's usually the family which has never owned a dog before that reacts with hostility to would-be helping hands .
6 He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio .
7 Pessimists had been saying that the war could last between four and seven years , and that Britain , which had never lost a war , would not lose this one either .
8 Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles .
9 To give a second example , pied flycatchers which have never seen a shrike will mob a model shrike ; the mobbing is best elicited , or ‘ released ’ , by a model of the right size and orientation , with a horizontal black eye stripe on the appropriate background colour .
10 Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the
11 Such V-shaped ribs are not found on brachiopods , which have never developed the capacity for burrowing .
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