Example sentences of "[subord] it ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made the system look more Erastian than it ever looked before . |
| 2 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 3 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 4 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 5 | She nodded rapturously , and suddenly the night was beautiful and the moon shone brighter than it ever had before . |
| 6 | In the event Berkeley probably cost more than it ever yielded . |
| 7 | Working with the management now is a lot better than it ever has been . |
| 8 | Oh indeed , but er you have to consider the situation the diplomatic situation between Britain , er the West in general and Iran which is the backer of Hezbalar which does pull the strings of the kidnappers , is perhaps er diff , different and in a more improved state than it ever has been before . |
| 9 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 10 | The article continues : ’ Sports bodies are denied resources by government , which takes more from sport than it ever gives back . |
| 11 | But I think it would be glorifying things a bit to say that re-created Cabinet government in its full glory , if it ever existed in its full glory in the nineteenth century , which I frankly rather doubt . |
| 12 | His patrimonial estate ( if it ever existed ) was confiscated because , as he claimed , he was now an émigré ' , having failed to return to France in the prescribed period . |
| 13 | Two thirds of these , however , have a range of less than 160 km ; so the weapons could drop on the alliance 's own territory if it ever had to retreat in the face of an attack by the Warsaw Pact . |
| 14 | We had gone through Mullinavat and came to a village whose name I do not know — if it ever had one . |
| 15 | If it ever had been there . ’ |
| 16 | Er the centre 's supposed to be totally non-political and if it ever got political , they 'd close us down . |
| 17 | Thus its Budget — if it ever got the chance — would hit the lowest paid disproportionately . |
| 18 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 19 | If it ever became easy it would lose its meaning ’ . |
| 20 | As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting , the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer . |
| 21 | The example a few hundred yards upstream cuts through the neck of an entrenched meander , but it is some 100 m ( 330 ft ) long so that considerable modification will have to take place before it becomes a true natural arch of the Ardèche type , if it ever does . |
| 22 | If it ever does . |
| 23 | And if it ever becomes one — God forbid ! — it wo n't be my case . |
| 24 | Even with the credibility and power of the National Gallery 's support , the Barnes Foundation faces additional legal challenges if it ever hopes to take part of its collection around the world . |
| 25 | If it ever gets them , it will probably be thanks to the Geographic Targeting Taskforce , a local activists ' group that is now beginning to make an impact on the area . |
| 26 | ‘ If it ever gets made , ’ says Howard , ‘ because I do n't think it 's ever going to get off the ground . |
| 27 | Cos if it ever gets where it 's not making money I suppose it 'll just shut . |
| 28 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 29 | If it ever came to making hard choices over monetary policy or economic policy where the needs of one region or country conflicted with those of Germany , it is fanciful to think that her priorities , as the self-styled ‘ motor ’ of Europe , would not prevail . |
| 30 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |