Example sentences of "that [vb -s] ever [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
| 2 | The largest of the filter-feeders is , however , far from static and is indeed the biggest animal that has ever lived — the blue whale . |
| 3 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 4 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 5 | I can see a situation in which a government made up of aggressive men , their minds set on world domination achieved through war , could seize on your researches to create the most warlike and dangerous nation that has ever existed , which links with this gentleman 's second point . ’ |
| 6 | In July 1980 a dispute at the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic port of Gdansk led to the formation of an inter-strike committee and shortly afterwards to the establishment of Solidarity , the first ( and so far the last ) genuinely self-governing trade union that has ever existed in a communist-ruled country . |
| 7 | The best chance of success for working people no doubt would be if the two great general unions , the T G W U and the G M B , found a way of doing it together , found a way of creating the most powerful union that has ever existed in Britain . |
| 8 | But from what you 've told me , I 'm afraid that your countrymen are the worst little nation of insects that has ever crawled upon the ground . ’ |
| 9 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 10 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 11 | Their goal was to create a building that would remain functional after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 , as big as anything that has ever hit California . |
| 12 | It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life . |
| 13 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |
| 14 | ‘ The merit of Mr. Audubon 's work yields only to the size of his book , ’ he said , ‘ while Mr. Gould 's work on the Birds of Europe , inferior in size to that of Mr. Audubon 's , is the most beautiful work on Ornithology that has ever appeared in this or any other country . ’ |
| 15 | Scotland 's 1954 World Cup team will go down in history as one of the most disastrous and ill-prepared rabble that has ever represented the country abroad . |
| 16 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 17 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 18 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
| 19 | This filter is made up of everything that has ever happened in our life , plus our basic temperament . |
| 20 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 21 | I even sat on the local erm committee wi with the police authority , you know , and er we 've got all sorts of promises but nothing that has ever materialized . |
| 22 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
| 24 | ‘ We respect the past but our aim is to start something as exciting as anything that 's ever happened here . |
| 25 | This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 26 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 27 | This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’ |
| 28 | Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck , the greatest thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 29 | He 's That One , Mr Body Beautiful , I do n't think , and the worst thing that 's ever happened in Jan 's family since her own husband . |
| 30 | In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’ |