Example sentences of "[verb] never been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation . |
| 2 | Although earning power is , in effect , a franchise , it has never been recognized for balance sheet purposes … , except in the limited extent of purchased goodwill . |
| 3 | The population has remained between 300 to 400 , as the village has never been designated for large residential development . |
| 4 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 5 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 6 | That company company car has never been used for company use . |
| 7 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 8 | This has never been shown for prostatic cancer . |
| 9 | In what must rank as one of the most petty letters ever to emerge from the SFA , an organisation that has never been known for its broad-mindedness , the secretary demanded that the ball be returned . |
| 10 | SCO has never been known for its realism . |
| 11 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 12 | Besides , Goshawk Squadron has never been known for doing things half-heartedly , has it ? ’ |
| 13 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from the forays of his brother-in-law , Charles Coxen , this area had never been explored for birds . |
| 15 | Malcolm Scott had never been called for throwing in his life , nor warned of what was to come . |
| 16 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 17 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 18 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
| 19 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 20 | Pc Court , who joined Derbyshire police 17 years ago , had never been interviewed for the CID . |
| 21 | It had never been known for them to stay less than three hours — not that Mum minded . |
| 22 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 23 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 24 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 25 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |
| 26 | He says because my father died early in 1937 he 's never been honoured for his work . |
| 27 | These coppice woods have never been noted for their birds , even less when they are abandoned and become densely shaded , although hornbeam is a tree favoured by Hawfinches . |
| 28 | The gravel pits at the Crumbles have never been noted for their ornithological interest , except for passage migrants , and when excavation is complete will be used for sailing . |
| 29 | ‘ The low quotient members of society have never been noted for their imagination . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |