Example sentences of "could ever [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mohamed Zairi 's Competitive Benchmarking : An Executive Guide ( Technical Communications ( Publishing ) Ltd , £26.50 ) calls it : ‘ The most valuable tool that senior managers could ever aspire to . ’ |
| 2 | But nothing could ever compare to the delights of JTR 's landlady and accommodation … |
| 3 | Described as a Professional ZX Spectrum Keyboard this has to be the worst thing you could ever do to your Spectrum ! |
| 4 | Many came to the door attempting to sell brushes , polish and so on , often carrying a card from the firm employing them explaining that they were disabled servicemen , I tremble to think that we could ever return to conditions like these . |
| 5 | Moreover , once the King went to the States there was no way he could ever return to Iran except as a parcel from the CIA . |
| 6 | I wonder how anybody could ever go to gyms . |
| 7 | Its my own personal opinion that the only true love and er I have to honestly say I 've never heard love here defined as I would as the totally unconditional love that happens between a woman and a child , probably from the moment of birth that bonds them through life , that 's the only love that I could ever admit to . |
| 8 | ‘ I already know you as well as I could ever want to . |
| 9 | Zambia accompanied Nathan back to the screen room , and in the space of that short time , gleaned more information than Tammuz could ever hope to . |
| 10 | The holder of three scientific degrees — from Oxford , UCLA and MIT , all summa cum laude — in electrical engineering and electronics , Denholm was as close to being an electronics wizard as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 11 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 12 | He was as certain of his audience as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 13 | And though they are close to the vertical much of the way , they are thick with a stubbornly adhesive growth of trees and bushes , as well as , on the lower reaches , with the most exuberant coating of mosses you could ever hope to sec . |
| 14 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 15 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 16 | Or are you too afraid to actually admit that the great Luke Calder could ever stoop to underhand dealing to get what he wants ? ’ |
| 17 | I reckon the closest Fergie could ever get to her role model would be pulling pints in the Queen Vic down in Albert Square . |
| 18 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |
| 19 | Nirvana have made heavy metal intelligent and vital — not words you could ever apply to Marky Mark , a 21-year-old Calvin Klein underwear model , former New Kid On The Block and white boy posing as black rapper . |
| 20 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 21 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 22 | ‘ It is the most awful thing that could ever happen to me . |
| 23 | More than could ever come to Siward 's aid , no matter where he sent for them . |
| 24 | Certainly no list could ever claim to be exhaustive and complete . |