Example sentences of "[noun pl] have ever been " in BNC.
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| 1 | HISTORY is full of unexplained mysteries , for which no current solutions have ever been found . |
| 2 | No fertilizers or pesticides have ever been used here . |
| 3 | Only 18 ( 31.6% ) of the 57 subjects with communication disorders had ever been assessed by a speech therapist . |
| 4 | If the floor plates have ever been removed then the sealer around them may have been damaged and need replacing . |
| 5 | Neither Gran nor my parents have ever been in Italy . |
| 6 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 7 | Only thirty-odd wild red-breasted geese have ever been recorded in Britain . |
| 8 | Only a minority of farm workers have ever been unionized and the history of rural trade unionism has been a chequered one , alternating between brief heady periods of success and long periods of stagnation and weakness . |
| 9 | ‘ None of our intensive care beds have ever been cut . |
| 10 | But , in the two areas of labour rights and educational control , it is not at all certain that the temporary reversal of constitutional guarantees has ever been restored . |
| 11 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 12 | The companies and the workforces that came out of it we were far leaner , more committed , and more aware of the need for change than their predecessors had ever been . |
| 13 | And they had , over and over again , so many times that no one except me seemed to remember that things had ever been different . |
| 14 | Only three avalanches have ever been recorded in Scotland in November since 1925 when avalanche recording was started . |
| 15 | I do n't think the boundaries of Business Studies have ever been particularly clear . |
| 16 | No trace of the bodies has ever been found . |
| 17 | No bodies have ever been found . |
| 18 | Mr Annal wrote , too , to the Education Department , to discover for himself whether the children 's teachers had ever been consulted . |
| 19 | Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void . |
| 20 | We 've got three at home and three away , but I always say that not many games have ever been won on paper , and I still think we 've got a great chance . ’ |
| 21 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 22 | Few of his Frome ancestors had ever been so lucky , and nor had his father ; if death or disease did not rob a 19th-century artisan of his earning power , he had , as we see , the luxury of earning more than he needed to spend . |
| 23 | No tickets have ever been issued in the Railway 's eight-years-long official existence but Doug and the three compatriots that run the service shake a bucket at passengers for donations , and , throughout the 1980's , have raised thousands of pounds for this most worthy of causes . |
| 24 | Cardboard cut-outs of the two continents were made and fitted together , computer programmes written to devise the most perfect match between the two continents , similarities and the differences in the geology of corresponding areas studied ad nauseam , and even details of the animal life in each continent compared , but without reaching any firm conclusions on whether or not the two continents had ever been united . |
| 25 | Although only four birds had ever been recorded before 1948 , Little Ringed Plovers have bred in Sussex frequently since 1950 . |
| 26 | Faces were closer to hers than faces had ever been , except those of lovers in the act of love . |
| 27 | In the United States , where many fewer industries have ever been state-owned , the shift from public to private mainly took the form of reducing government regulation of activities such as air transport ( ‘ deregulation ’ ) . |
| 28 | Because so few drug-liability claims have ever been decided in court , no one is clear what responsibilities drug firms should bear . |
| 29 | No accounts have ever been published — probably none were kept — but figures of around twenty billion lei are bandied about in Bucharest . |
| 30 | Few projects have ever been successful . |