Example sentences of "never been [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task . |
| 6 | But these campaigns have never been isolated from the fundamental issue of power , the issue of who rules our country , who has this right to make and unmake the law . |
| 7 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The subject of the computerisation of our family doctors ' practices has almost never been raised , and has never been raised as an individual subject for debate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact , many people in Broadmoor have never been convicted of a serious crime , or indeed ever committed a criminal offence . ) |
| 12 | I have never been disturbed by the apparent anomaly that the death sentence remains in our law as the penalty for treason : I see no parallel or analogy between the punishment of crime within a society and the self-defence of a society against its enemies . |
| 13 | Many farmers still retained some milk for cheesemaking but regulations on the production and use of milk during the Second World War almost brought farmhouse production to a halt and it has never been resumed on an appreciable scale . |
| 14 | They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies . |
| 15 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 16 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Elchibey was equivocal on Azerbaijan 's continued membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , which had never been ratified by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Agreement-marking " you know what I mean " and " you know " are well-established in JC ( see Sebba and Tate 1986 ) but have never been reported before the 1980s in any type of British English in Britain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 24 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 25 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 26 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 27 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 30 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |