Example sentences of "have never be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 2 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 3 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 4 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 5 | Nails ' mum and dad had never been homely sorts . |
| 6 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 7 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 8 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 9 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 10 | Indian tours have never been simple affairs and after barely 24 hours the current one is shaping up like its predecessors . |
| 11 | Yet language difficulties have never been insurmountable barriers . |
| 12 | We need to ensure that the management of community care is improved to meet the needs of those who are discharged from hospitals and , more particularly , of those who have never been long-stay patients in our hospitals for the mentally ill . |
| 13 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 14 | As there is no access to the shore there have never been any businesses based on the sea . |
| 15 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 16 | There have never been any women chief constables , and women are in general at the lower levels of the police force . |
| 17 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 18 | Spit and polish and the mindless regime of kit preparation have never been guiding principles in the Light Division ; nonetheless , each recruit takes a pride in his appearance and is at pains to ensure that his turnout is of the highest standard . |