Example sentences of "have never [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a country without a written constitution , the work of Bagehot , Dicey , and Jennings , has actually been the written codification of the customs , conventions , precedents , and traditions that have never been simply set down in single , legal document . |
| 2 | Often such matters have never been previously talked about and instead left to fester in bad relationships , complaining , negative attitudes and lack of drive . |
| 3 | Unfortunately they tend to be ignored as they have never been properly recorded and analyzed/evaluated . |
| 4 | Stock 's 70 top-ten places in downhill , super giant and giant slalom have never been properly honoured , even among his own countrymen . |
| 5 | Modern historians have for long assumed this rise , and stressed its importance ; and yet its nature and the evidence for it have never been properly analysed . |
| 6 | ‘ I have never been physically assaulted by a client but there have been circumstances when I 've thought I should be a bit careful . |
| 7 | While some archaeological sites , such as the spectacular ruins at Petra in Jordan or the monolithic statues on Easter Island in the Pacific , have never been completely buried , the majority of archaeological sites and finds have to be unearthed . |
| 8 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 9 | The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 . |
| 10 | Generally , however , I am just looking forward to another good season — and I think I 'll make it because I have never been so settled or contented in my life . ’ |
| 11 | I have never been so humiliated in all my life . |
| 12 | More recently the rapid increase in the wealth of the Japanese , their greater consumption of diamonds and the fact that they have never been so attached to gold as the peoples of the west have led to a sharp increase in their use of platinum for jewellery . |
| 13 | Probably the basic ideas of democracy — the idea of equal political rights for all ( or at least for all men ) , the idea of a government of the poor or of the people , the idea of turning the traditional social hierarchies upside down — have never been entirely lost sight of among the vast submerged majorities of history . |
| 14 | It is also known that there are people in mental handicap hospitals who are not and have never been mentally handicapped . |
| 15 | Although at first sight the answers to them seem obvious , they become much more complex and contestable when subjected to closer examination , and they have never been systematically brought together , or the questions definitively resolved . |
| 16 | As a result , I have never been less tempted to support an Opposition motion , although I assure my hon. Friend who is the Whip on duty that I am never tempted in that direction . |
| 17 | Their biological affinities , however , have never been satisfactorily explained . |
| 18 | The ‘ Gowrie Conspiracy ’ was to leave a lot of puzzling questions which have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 19 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , when such influences are considered as explanations of the results of free-running experiments , the following problems have never been satisfactorily dealt with . |
| 21 | For an official to be able to act in this way is probably unique in the world , and it is almost certain that the high motives of the draftees of this regulation have never been fully recognised . |
| 22 | Many sites where archaeological remains are on public display have never been fully excavated , and any further excavations on these sites are usually undertaken to add to the information on display . |
| 23 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 24 | Arguments between these two positions have never been fully articulated , and because of their highly theory-dependent nature are dealt with , in this book , only in passing . |
| 25 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |