Example sentences of "never been [vb pp] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 5 | Elchibey was equivocal on Azerbaijan 's continued membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , which had never been ratified by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 9 | It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now . |
| 10 | Milton has never been bothered by the constant turmoil of his worldwide travels . |