Example sentences of "[noun sg] ever [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | A line containing a stone circle and a pre-Reformation church , for example , has sites separated by perhaps three millennium — so how could the ley ever have been set out deliberately ? |
| 2 | But he would be quite safe because he would keep a sharp look-out for anything and everything , and he would not be captured because no Longhand ever had been captured . |
| 3 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 4 | Comprising four large and seven small triptychs and fifty other works , it has been curated by Dr Rudy Chiappini , director of the Dicastero Musei e Cultura della Citta di Lugano , and private dealer Massimo Martino , and is the most important , in addition to being the only really international , exhibition ever to have been organised by the Lugano Municipal Arts Museum . |
| 5 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 6 | Indeed , I do n't recall league ever having been mentioned . |
| 7 | She was in her late thirties , lean and strong , too neat and plain of feature ever to have been beautiful but her large grey eyes were intelligent and full of wilfulness and energy . |
| 8 | As far as is known , no disease ever has been transmitted with cocoa material distributed from Kew , but the danger is real , and without such quarantine facilities the spread of such diseases as witches ' broom would be almost impossible to prevent . |