Example sentences of "[noun] [be] ever to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children , too , were rather expected to play , and to play quietly , behind the house no balls or tin trumpets were ever to be left on the gravel sweep . |
| 2 | Also the first time you realised how unlikely your crime was ever to be discovered . |
| 3 | There is also the question of your sister 's reputation if her part in this , er … concealment were ever to be made public . |
| 4 | If the lead were ever to be sold to radiation detector manufacturers it would raise more than the £24000 it has cost to salvage the hull . |
| 5 | An agreeable sort of departure , a legal exit to which no legal re-entry was ever to be forthcoming . |
| 6 | None of those who sniped at his film career were ever to be so lasciviously tempted . |
| 7 | If a Labour Government were ever to be tried , he declared , ‘ it could hardly be tried under safer conditions . ’ |
| 8 | If the channel tunnel is ever to be a genuine national undertaking that brings benefit to all parts of the United Kingdom , and if that is to be achieved within our lifetime , it is important that the Bill goes ahead . |
| 9 | Asquith could also reflect with satisfaction that ‘ if a Labour Government is ever to be tried in this country , as it will be sooner or later , it could hardly be tried under safer conditions ’ . |
| 10 | Only if Denmark 's freedom were ever to be threatened , so the legend ran , would he reawaken in her defence . |
| 11 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 12 | If Versailles is ever to be refurnished in Sun King style , it will have to become an hotel . |
| 13 | If Tara 's brilliance , if the radiance that had once shone for Ireland 's High Kings was ever to be kindled again , Medoc must be driven out and destroyed . |
| 14 | The Declaration recognized that such radical economic readjustment policies in several of the countries present had already entailed widespread " sacrifice " and that this had to end if true social justice were ever to be achieved . |
| 15 | If nothing from an historic house is ever to be sold , how is the roof to be repaired ? |
| 16 | Finally , Wittgenstein makes the point that if the language is ever to be used for communication , the terms in it can not get their meanings from objects private to one user of the language . |
| 17 | No person in a position of power was ever to be trusted , especially if he or she was on your side . |