Example sentences of "have ever been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Landscape painting is flourishing in Scotland today , artists resident , their subject matter possibly more valued than it has ever been with so much ‘ green ’ and wilderness awareness .
2 They say no Michael Green has ever been with them .
3 Anyone who has ever been to a similar school will know exactly what I mean .
4 His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot .
5 I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually .
6 Cultural theorists fell on pop video with squeals of delight ( there is already more high theory of video around than there has ever been of music ) ; pop fans watching the Whistle Test 's weekly video vote just groaned .
7 There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time .
8 Like every other Secretary of State who has ever been in charge of social security , I was under pressure from the Treasury .
9 ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’
10 ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’
11 Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past .
12 ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’
13 But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then .
14 In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
15 First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million .
16 In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
17 Each of these aspects of the learning environment will now be even more fully under the control of the school than it has ever been before and this is the challenge to leadership and management in every school .
18 No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box .
19 It was the first time she 'd ever been on board ship .
20 ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with .
21 Easily the oldest woman he 'd ever been with .
22 It was an all-night show , the first I 'd ever been to .
23 If you 'd ever been to a party at the Linleys you 'd understand .
24 It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m .
25 ‘ It was a process of necessity , really but , since it was just me and a Portastudio , it was the first time I 'd ever been in the position of being able to write and record without any kind of pressure from anyone else .
26 Suddenly it felt dark and oppressive in the little office , heavy with all the unhappiness there 'd ever been in the Demdyke house .
27 I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it .
28 The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life .
29 Despite being more nervous than he 'd ever been in his life he hit a 3-iron from the edge of the fairway bunker to within 20 feet of the flag .
30 One moment she had been happier than she 'd ever been in her life , the next she was alone again .
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