Example sentences of "or ever [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear not only that all knowledge of selling me a coffin was denied but even that they were now , or ever had been , coffin-manufacturers . |
| 2 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 3 | It asks soldiers whether they , their friends or family members are or ever have been members of the IRA , INLA , IRSP , Sinn Fein , the Communist Party or the Connolly Youth Movement . |
| 4 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 5 | Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK . |
| 6 | ’ I do not believe that the Government 's intention is , or ever has been , to privatise the health service . |
| 7 | Non of that product is or ever has been or is ever going to be sold . |
| 8 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |