Example sentences of "[adj] ever to " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOKES TOO RISKY EVER TO BE TOLD ! |
| 2 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 3 | While not a fault tolerant machine or likely ever to be one , Dragon has automatic system recovery for fault resilience . |
| 4 | But even this overestimates the degree of homogeneity : some Nigerians were rich enough to escape being ‘ black ’ ; some whites were always too poor ever to be ‘ white ’ . |
| 5 | The glitter of A-levels in today 's broader , more diverse , degree market is starting to tarnish , and is unlikely ever to be restored to its former glory . |
| 6 | Mr Solarz is unlikely ever to be president . |
| 7 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 8 | Among the mass of contradictory claims that have come out of the discovery , Climber has tried to piece together what is known and what is purely speculation in a mystery that is unlikely ever to be solved . |
| 9 | It was the one reason why France was unlikely ever to be truly subjugated by mere force of arms . |
| 10 | Sun 's very presence in the workstation market , however , means that MIPS is unlikely ever to be number one . |
| 11 | The truth , of course , is unlikely ever to be known . |
| 12 | She assumed her sister was referring to getting into Cambridge , which she herself considered a poisonous , disreputable fantasy , and one unlikely ever to be fulfilled : the number of girls who had achieved Cambridge places from Battersby Girls ' Grammar in the last ten years could be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 13 | Mr. Lloyd said that in such a case the discretion to order rectification against a bona fide purchaser , such as the building society in the present case , would be very unlikely ever to be exercised . |
| 14 | They pointed out that large numbers of patients , especially among the old , were unlikely ever to be really fit to enter normal community life , and that for many others the community care services were still woefully inadequate . |
| 15 | We are unlikely ever to be able to quantify transaction and implementation costs with any certainty . |
| 16 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 17 | This means that those underlying factors are unlikely ever to be tackled and people will come to distrust a government that disregards their needs . |
| 18 | The purpose was to bring Red Sea capacity to 1.6 million b/d , making 4.9 million in all , ignoring the Syrian line which seems unlikely ever to be reopened . |
| 19 | In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption . |
| 20 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 21 | Just as manual catalogues are not harmonised retrospectively , so electronic versions are unlikely ever to be . |
| 22 | It will continue , but the kinds of jobs which are available in Leeds city centre , er in in some ways are unlikely ever to be provided in particularly in rural districts , precisely because Leeds is the regional capital . |
| 23 | Radical views like this seem unlikely ever to be accepted by the cardinals who dictate the dominant conservative teaching . |
| 24 | A RAILWAY safety inspector acknowledged yesterday that junctions like the one at Newton , near Motherwell , where four people died in a head-on train crash , were unlikely ever to be approved for use again . |
| 25 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 26 | In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’ |
| 27 | Once tried , it was too potent ever to be abandoned for good . |
| 28 | That first post-natal subservience , bred of physical dependence , was too ingrained ever to be totally eradicated . |