Example sentences of "have never been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In west Berlin , suddenly presented with armies of new customers by the disappearance of the border , business has never been better .
2 Saying business around the world has never been better , Grove said he is puzzled by Intel 's steep stock market fall .
3 The youth situation has never been better , We 're still in with a chance of getting into Europe and the club is fiancially viable .
4 And since the custom was revived four years ago the cider crop has never been better .
5 The other tenants say that life for them has never been better .
6 The number of people killed has never been lower .
7 The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower : it is journalism that gives the lead .
8 For four years running , the Government 's teachers ' pay committee has reported that teachers ' morale has never been lower .
9 ‘ Morale among the Associations ’ 800 members has never been lower since I joined in 1977 and this represents the launch of a campaign for a better deal for referees and linesmen . ’
10 But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff .
11 My personality , I like to think , has never been intrusive .
12 Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper .
13 What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ?
14 The other is that the English landscape has never been static but has always been changing , for better or worse Today we are passing through a period which can perhaps be regarded as a disaster .
15 Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal .
16 Over the years , it has never been certain , except in the very simplest cases , what comes first in scientific research .
17 The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc .
18 The two firms continued to act as member firms in E&Y International , but a full merger has never been possible .
19 These eight tasks of audit can not be carried out in smaller schools — schools in which it has never been possible to develop subject differentiation to the same degree as in larger schools .
20 The college route into teaching has never been exclusive ; university-based qualification has been a proper alternative , especially for graduates seeking a career in secondary education .
21 Torrance 's putt remains one of most lingering memories of the ‘ 80's , which is rather ironic because putting has never been one of the strongest parts of the Scot 's game .
22 You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft .
23 There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since .
24 In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ .
25 The hon. Member for South Ribble ( Mr. Atkins ) says that he will be among those abolished , but he has already abolished himself — there has never been such a secret and silent Minister for Sport .
26 There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 .
27 Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise .
28 Of course I 'm very sorry but our relationship has never been close .
29 While the old policy of seclusion was proved non-viable , the opening to the West has never been total and unambiguous .
30 It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals .
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