Example sentences of "but [verb] never been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 2 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
| 3 | Early endocrine treatment may delay progression of disease but has never been shown to prolong survival . |
| 4 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 5 | With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public . |
| 6 | A similar request was approved three years ago but has never been implemented . |
| 7 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |
| 8 | The concept of running a road bridge over a listed , 140-year-old railway viaduct seems simple enough but has never been tried before in this country . |
| 9 | Mark had spent many idyllic summer days sailing and fishing with his brothers and his aunt on the beautiful river , but had never been to her winter cottage . |
| 10 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 11 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 12 | The world 's first chair-lift was installed in Sun Valley , Idaho in 1934 — a resort designed by Hollywood architects who copied , but had never been to , the Tyrol . |
| 13 | Ramsay had seen it before , but had never been inside . |
| 14 | Yet Joseph knew that he was right to have his armaments in place : you could never trust the gypsies or the tinkers — against each other , let alone anyone else : quacks , drunks and ranters would drift from their positions in the line and cause trouble just by bumping into the orderly armada of hill folk who knew how to hold steady but had never been fond of strangers . |
| 15 | She is a steady inland and sea paddler but had never been in a sea kayak . |
| 16 | It had been begun in 1928 by Padre Mazzetti , of the Dominican fathers in the Santuario , but had never been finished or occupied up until now . |
| 17 | At about 0230 hours the fishing vessel-cum-yacht Guiding Lights , which had figured on our suspect list since 1974 , but had never been sighted in British waters , sailed into the trap , heaving-to off Talland Bay , about half a mile off shore . |
| 18 | He maintained his innocence and claimed he had been willing to give his life for Castro but had never been a communist . |
| 19 | The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms . |
| 20 | I 've had perms in the past but have never been happy with them — they are always too curly . |
| 21 | A variety of practices are universally accepted but have never been documented . |
| 22 | Still others are named , are known to have been in circulation , but have never been seen . |
| 23 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 24 | Agreement-marking " you know what I mean " and " you know " are well-established in JC ( see Sebba and Tate 1986 ) but have never been reported before the 1980s in any type of British English in Britain . |
| 25 | Many young drivers , like Paul Standen , may have passed their test , but have never been on a motorway . |