Example sentences of "[verb] never before be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Although ‘ Moore Intime ’ had the cooperation of the Henry Moore Foundation , she reminded everyone of her diverging views in her speech at the inaugural dinner : ‘ I can see and feel the real Henry Moore in this exhibition in a way that has never before been achieved .
2 How is a totally new , totally comprehensive valuation of capital values — something that has never before been done in England and Wales — to be carried out within the dangerously tight timetable dictated by the Government 's electoral concerns ?
3 Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics .
4 The Louvre received an extraordinarily rich array of material from this region , most of which has never before been loaned .
5 The classy eight-year-old has never before been entered in either race .
6 Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale .
7 Miss Joyce could not afford to sue for libel , for which Legal Aid is not available , so she chose the ancient legal route of malicious falsehood which IS covered by legal aid but has never before been used in this way .
8 EIB money has never before been offered to Eastern Europe .
9 Also , the story has never before been told in its proper historical and intellectual context .
10 The newspaper-reading public — and the television audience of some 40 million who had never before been treated to live pictures from the Californian coast — revelled in the pictures of Gromyko and his polish and Czech ‘ wrecking crew ’ ( as John Foster Dulles put it ) who complained , harangued , sulked and finally walked out as amendment after amendment was defeated by the other conferees .
11 She had never before been exposed to the ruthless face of terrorism .
12 In rural areas which had never before been exposed to the agent , an increase in childhood leukaemia cases resulted .
13 ‘ We never got any recognition for it , but Vidal 's short , geometric look , which made his name and got him into the news , had never before been seen .
14 ‘ Both the settlers and the natives assured me ’ , wrote Gould , ‘ that they [ the bronzewings ] had suddenly arrived , and that they had never before been seen in that part of the country .
15 He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him .
16 As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London .
17 If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did .
18 It covers much new material , including letters which have never before been published , a number of long lost works which in the past few years have resurfaced from museum storerooms in the former Soviet Union , and works newly discovered in international private collections .
19 The Tories have never before been reduced to control of one county council : Buckinghamshire is now the sole jewel in their crown .
20 You have probably used sentences today which have never before been used by the human race .
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