Example sentences of "ever [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 3 | I doubt if any survey has ever been carried out without the researcher having some regrets at the analysis stage about some questions which could have been phrased better , but the good researcher makes sure in advance that these regrets are as few as possible . |
| 4 | No complete census of dolphins has ever been carried out in India , although the total population is generally assumed to be between 4000 and 5000 . |
| 5 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 6 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 7 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 8 | Nothing white should ever be taken in at the waist . |
| 9 | No search should ever be carried out by a single individual . |
| 10 | The qualities of the Queen of the Night , as with the other eight archetypes , can be discovered in a variety of personal and cultural contexts ; none of the Nine can ever be pinned down to one final form . |
| 11 | Today , in the extremely unlikely event of its ever being put up for sale , it would certainly fetch several million US dollars on the open market . |