Example sentences of "has never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vatican has never officially recognised Indonesia 's annexation of the territory , but it is privately conceded that the Papal visit constitutes de facto recognition of the status quo . |
| 2 | C. P. Snow had been a scientist at Christ 's College , Cambridge before he turned to fiction ; William Golding , a Salisbury schoolteacher who gave up teaching with the success of Lord of the Flies , has never exactly written an academic fiction , but The Spire ( 1964 ) is about the enclosed scholastic world of medieval architecture . |
| 3 | She says she has never again felt so close to anyone , he was like an accomplice and brother . |
| 4 | Tom has infected at least 6 people — thought he has never even met Jane , Mark and Alan . |
| 5 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 6 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 7 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 8 | The relationship between the band and the paper has never completely recovered . |
| 9 | But performance alone has never yet ensured the job of a French nationalised industry chairman . |
| 10 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 11 | The issue of what might occur if the secession of a Member State were opposed by one or more of the others has never yet arisen . |
| 12 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 13 | Mr Perot has never yet chosen to give a straight reply to that point . |
| 14 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 15 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 16 | The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey , especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views . |
| 17 | Gooch has never publicly criticised Ted Dexter and Co for limiting his re-appointment to three one-day matches and three Tests pending a mid-term review . |
| 18 | If it succeeds , it could turn the personal computer business upside down , by delivering what the PC always promised but has never quite achieved : the ability to work where and how you please , no matter what computer you are using or how limited your knowledge . |
| 19 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 20 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
| 21 | Reading between the lines , I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them . ’ |
| 22 | To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis . |
| 23 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 24 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 26 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 27 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 28 | Yet the promised resurrection of the $200 billion-plus market has never quite happened . |
| 29 | On his death-bed , George V visited a royal curse upon the town with his famous final utterance ‘ Bugger Bognor ! ’ , from which the place has never quite recovered . |
| 30 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |