Example sentences of "never been [vb pp] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although homoeopathy has been a part of the British National Health Service since its inception in 1948 , it has never been taught as an undergraduate subject in any of the medical schools in Britain .
2 She had never been engaged as an emergency medic , but only as a first-aid post .
3 The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added .
4 The nuns claim that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , and although salmonella is present in the environment it is not necessarily in the eggs .
5 The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him .
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