Example sentences of "be ever [vb pp] in " in BNC.

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1 One might ask whether motorists are ever justified in knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives .
2 Although the first two positions are committed to the view that we are sometimes justified in causing nonhuman animals significant pain , in pursuit of institutionalised human interests , animal rightists deny that we are ever justified in doing this .
3 First , Wittgenstein sees this sort of foundationalist as a form of sceptic , who admits the difficulty of showing that we are ever justified in believing that other persons exist .
4 No crimes are ever reported in the Magic Kingdom — and it 's even rumoured that fatal heart attack victims are smuggled out so their deaths can be recorded off the park .
5 There is no doubt that swordfish have succeeded in piercing the bottom planking of boats , but if any were ever sunk in this way is unknown .
6 He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) .
7 This was the only day of the year that the workers were ever allowed in the family parlour .
8 ‘ It is almost axiomatic in businesses like this that nothing of value is ever kept in the safe . ’
9 I wonder if anything similar is ever done in the case of articles such as those complained of above ?
10 No meaningful work is ever done in a crowd — that is amateur .
11 It is ever associated in my mind with a scene I witnessed there many years ago .
12 Last winter Jean-Philippe Ruggia trained harder than he 's ever done in his racing career .
13 If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in .
14 There is no evidence that zinc metal was ever prepared in Africa — it has to be made by condensation since it volatilises before it can be reduced from the ore .
15 As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records .
16 No one was ever left in Masailand for so long again .
17 They were a very close family but in the years to come no gathering or wedding , not even simple gatherings , was ever held in any one of their houses .
18 Jack had married the daughter of the Westward family , as unlikely a match as was ever known in the country , but necessary since a child was on the way .
19 But nothing sustained and organised of this kind was ever contemplated in London .
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