Example sentences of "never [been] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
2 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
3 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
4 | There has never been a ban on supplying nicotine substitutes to individual patients . |
5 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
6 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
7 | Tom … he 's never been a mouser in his life , I do n't imagine . |
8 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
9 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |
10 | I 've never been a part of any plot ! |
11 | They have never been a part of Middlesbrough , except that for the Post Office 's convenience that town is used as an addition to their postal address . |
12 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
13 | Currently the independent music scene , with a few shining exceptions , is concerned with making a successful career , selling a lot of records , and that 's never been a concern of mine . |
14 | Farika 's perspective on contraception : ‘ It 's never been a bed of roses . ’ |
15 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
16 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
17 | Until recently this has never been a problem for Fred and Beth . |
18 | Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’ |
19 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
20 | The free entry of goods ( particularly consumer goods ) from abroad has never been a feature of global trade . |
21 | Well , when you say this lot , actually , it , it 's not er , actually a government body , this , in fact er , the Commons ' Heritage Committee , er these are the people who are announcing this price rise , in the proposals yesterday , they 're , they 're actually led by Gerald Kaufman , who 's never been a Conservative in his life . |
22 | Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys . |
23 | TELEVISION has never been a time-filler for me . |
24 | He had never been a patient of mine before . ’ |
25 | ‘ When you count the goals up next May , I think you 'll find there has never been a season like it , ’ he said on the eve of tonight 's match at Crystal Palace . |
26 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |
27 | During their stay on the plantation more than a hundred coolies in Village Number Three had died of fever and malnutrition , or had committed suicide but there had never been a death among their immediate neighbours . |
28 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
29 | There had never been a moment like it . |
30 | That phrase has never been a cliché to me , but an exact description of what I experienced in 1946 . |