Example sentences of "had never been [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This power had never been previously used , but became a key element in the plan to save Hector 's dolphin through the establishment of a marine mammal sanctuary around Banks Peninsula . |
| 2 | Douglas Turner , of the RSSPCC , said key elements of the Orkney affair , such as the truth of the allegations , had never been properly investigated given the strict guidelines set for Lord Clyde 's inquiry . |
| 3 | The previous law relating to covert action , the Hughes-Ryan amendment enacted in 1974 , had applied only to actions undertaken by the CIA and had never been rigorously applied . |
| 4 | In his opinion , though it had never been openly expressed , she was little more than a flibbertigibbet whose thoughts rarely ranged further afield than the next gratification . |
| 5 | Diplomatic sources in the capital San'aa , cited in the French press on April 19 , had claimed that Yemen had recently protested to Saudi Arabia over military movements by Saudi forces north of the border with Yemen — a border which had never been clearly delineated . |
| 6 | Heredity , in Rose 's case , had never been well balanced by environment . |
| 7 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 8 | It was announced on Dec. 16 that Stella Rimington , a deputy director-general of the security service MI5 , had been appointed its director-general from February 1992 in succession to Sir Patrick Walker , whose identity , in accordance with established practice , had never been officially confirmed . |
| 9 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 10 | Pity for the lamb , its feet tied , its pale head held on the ground between Anderson 's boots , had never been quite lost in an adult 's sensible acceptance of such things being inevitable prior to Sunday 's luncheon . |
| 11 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 12 | Conan Doyle 's celebrated creation had never been fully explained in the books , the ploy of writing the novels from Doctor Watson 's perspective avoiding any need to explain or qualify Holmes 's astonishing brilliance and motivation . |
| 13 | The Act of 1922 had never been fully implemented due to the fiscal restrictions of the Weimar Republic and later the fascist infringements of democratic rights . |
| 14 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 15 | A chance inquiry into an old debt revealed that the building had never been fully consecrated and thus would revert to Assheton family ownership after a year and a day 's disuse . |
| 16 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 17 | He stared right into her eyes , and she thought that she had never been so enraged in all her life . |
| 18 | He had never been so overwrought in his life . |
| 19 | In contrast , the counter-insurgency specialists had never been better prepared with schemes and theories . |
| 20 | While inevitably losing office in 1660 , he cleared his accounts successfully , while years later Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] believed that the finances of the navy had never been better handled than while he was treasurer . |
| 21 | Ted Broughton joined the Palace in the summer of 1948 to occupy the outside-right position , which had never been satisfactorily filled since the war . |
| 22 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |