Example sentences of "that have ever been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 2 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 3 | This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 4 | ‘ This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 5 | ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’ |
| 6 | Of all the glory that has ever been . |
| 7 | The Building News said that it was ‘ the greatest scandal and disgrace that has ever been inflicted on the architectural profession ’ . |
| 8 | Every heresy and man-made religion that has ever been invented presents a fractured picture of Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | To the western world , however , the Swastika is probably the most disturbing image that has ever been associated with a political regime . |
| 10 | The Future Development of Auditing , issued by the Auditing Practices Board , is the most important attempt to bridge the expectations gap that has ever been made by the British profession . |
| 11 | But he maintained the new centres will be ‘ different from anything that has ever been provided before ’ . |
| 12 | You realise you have taken part in the best game of rugby that has ever been played ’ — JEREMY GUSCOTT ( Bath and England centre ) . |
| 13 | I can see that his aim is to make these scenes so powerful that they will go beyond any fictional treatment of the death camps that has ever been tried before : the train roils through the night , the outcome , although certain , appallingly delayed by the shots of the iron wheels and the crude pistons ; the final scene of the five chimneys pouring their shameful smoke over the polish countryside , intercut — this is my contribution — with the smoke rising from the savannah . |
| 14 | N. Pink Sensation is one of the finest pinks that has ever been cultivated . |
| 15 | However , it is possible that a bright flash observed on the Moon by five English monks in the summer of 1178 was the formation of Bruno , in which case it is about the only lunar crater that has ever been observed to form . |
| 16 | He said that , together with the Bill , the Government had presented ’ the most extraordinary guillotine that has ever been introduced into the House ’ |
| 17 | The Cullen report is widely recognised as one of the most excellent reports that has ever been produced on matters that affect industrial safety . |
| 18 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 19 | From Micky who 's one of the most successful record pro producers that has ever been , he said if you have n't got an audience in the first thirty seconds you ai n't got the audience . |
| 20 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 21 | It was the best excuse that had ever been offered to a radio reporter in search of an interview ; ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I ca n't speak to you . |
| 22 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 23 | She was slender and very fair with long golden hair and as unlike as possible any Naulls that had ever been . |
| 24 | He had more than three hundred books on his shelves now ; everything that had ever been written about Vangmoor , of course , its history , geology , geography , wild life ; all his old school textbooks , all the adventure stories of his boyhood . |
| 25 | Moreover , the proportion of women that had ever been married or in conjugal union by age 16 varied widely , from less than one per cent in the Republic of Korea to 87 per cent in Bangladesh . |
| 26 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |
| 27 | That this is heartening , and cause for hope for the future , is due to its existence being unaffected by all the philosophies , religions , superstitions , political systems and cults that have ever been formulated . |
| 28 | Probably the most depressing words that have ever been pronounced about any slimming diet are those enthusiastic phrases from well-meaning medics on the lines of ‘ This is a diet that you can follow for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 29 | True , it 's a waste of natural resources , but a single issue of some daily newspapers is a far greater ecological sacrifice than all the guitars that have ever been put to death on stage . |
| 30 | In his own words he returned with a ‘ rich harvest of knowledge ’ , ‘ the finest collection extant ’ ; in the words of prince , ‘ His collections of Birds , quadrupeds , nests and eggs are unquestionably the finest that have ever been brought home ’ . |