Example sentences of "that [vb past] ever be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 2 | It was the best excuse that had ever been offered to a radio reporter in search of an interview ; ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I ca n't speak to you . |
| 3 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 4 | She was slender and very fair with long golden hair and as unlike as possible any Naulls that had ever been . |
| 5 | He had more than three hundred books on his shelves now ; everything that had ever been written about Vangmoor , of course , its history , geology , geography , wild life ; all his old school textbooks , all the adventure stories of his boyhood . |
| 6 | Moreover , the proportion of women that had ever been married or in conjugal union by age 16 varied widely , from less than one per cent in the Republic of Korea to 87 per cent in Bangladesh . |
| 7 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |