Example sentences of "[that] have never been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 2 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 3 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 4 | There 's some great playing on it generally , and some amazing guitar work that has never been heard . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that since 1979 the Government have introduced more training places and a wider range of training courses both in width and in depth , in a way that has never been attempted before ? |
| 6 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 7 | McMurdo never made the grade but like many Scots his early interest in the game ignited a flame of passion for football that has never been extinguished . |
| 8 | The new space will also have galleries for Greek and Roman gems , part of a Met collection that has never been shown . |
| 9 | Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal . |
| 10 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the opinion of many , the finest eighteenth-century French furniture set a standard of quality and craftsmanship that has never been equalled though much emulated , appearing in such widely divergent mutations as John Henry Belter 's high Victorian rococo revival to the sleek Art Deco refinement of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann . |
| 13 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 14 | The discovery was the start of a murder investigation that has never been solved . |
| 15 | What if he came in this evening through a door that was n't there and sat in a chair-shape , reading a paper that had never been printed , saying aloud bits that were only hum and haw again to me ? |
| 16 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 17 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 18 | The early 19th century saw a chemical revolution in the emergent paint industry , inspired by experiments subsidised by the French government , resulting in colours that had never been manufactured before . |
| 19 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 20 | Yet it together with the other numerous Somerset railways knitted town and country together in a way that had never been achieved before . |
| 21 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 22 | Until yesterday , the only hole at Augusta that had never been eagled was the 205-yard fourth . |
| 23 | " There was , " she said , a little boy in him that had never been released . |
| 24 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 25 | Philadelphia stood on the edge of land that had never been occupied by Europeans , and so the Pennsylvanians had to work out their relations with the Indians . |
| 26 | ‘ And then , ’ he added , whispering and grinning , ‘ if that ever was to happen — which it wo n't — the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em . ’ |
| 27 | It makes no more sense to talk about solutions without being absolutely clear about what problems they solve , than it does to talk about excellent answers to questions that have never been posed . |
| 28 | At around £30 , the 4-CD set From The Top ( A&M ) by The Carpenters is a good buy , featuring 67 tracks spanning their entire career and including 20 that have never been released before . |
| 29 | a on , on , on a , on a Monday night now it 's a True Crimes that have never been solved . |
| 30 | In one of the last and most highly dramatised flourishes of his directorship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , J. Carter Brown announced on 4 June that his museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be receiving on loan twenty-two fifth-century BC sculptures from Greece that have never been loaned before . |