Example sentences of "ever [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the result is that more motorists than ever are opting for life behind the wheel of a diesel vehicle . |
| 2 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 3 | And I seem to have been fairly successful in that I 've never neither I , nor Father Christmas , has ever been asked for what I would consider to be a greedy , outrageous present ! |
| 4 | I first came across her in a marriage hymn in Songs of Praise , which I still feel is the best that has ever been composed for a Christian wedding . |
| 5 | It is not a rosy outlook for most of them , though : he estimates that only about three unsought artist have ever been selected for commissions . |
| 6 | In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings . |
| 7 | HAVE YOU EVER BEEN MISTAKEN FOR THE BLOKE OUT OF SIMPLY RED ? ( laughs ) No ! |
| 8 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 9 | Well have you ever have you ever been busted for smoking ? |
| 10 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 11 | I wonder if anyone has ever been murdered for a house . ’ |
| 12 | and as a self-employed person , you get no sick pay or benefits , no training , no union protection or even much chance that you 'll ever be repaid for all those long hours of work . |
| 13 | It seems unlikely that a tortious duty of care or fiduciary duty would ever be applied for the benefit of non-members , since this would hinder the exchange 's performance of its overriding duty of fairness . |
| 14 | However , one farm which has only young 1992 fish has been told by its bankers that they do not believe the fish will ever be accepted for sale , even if tested clean , because of the public perception of the oil spill . |
| 15 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 16 | As long as a Unionist MP had to pay his election expenses , or an association chairman to " treat " the party workers , or a constituency delegate to pay his own expenses to a midweek conference , then few working men would ever be selected for any of these posts . |
| 17 | So 98.6% — a far higher percentage than can ever be claimed for the STV — contributed to the election only MdBs . |
| 18 | His Zoonomia must ever be cherished for its poetic delights as well as its remarkable meditations on the origins of things . |
| 19 | Should a leadership value ever be required for comparative purposes then use the value as 10 . |
| 20 | Whatever anybody else says , whatever doubts fi experiences may come our way that we will never ever be judged for a for our sins , because Christ has taken that judgement on himself , he has been judged for us , the price has been paid . |
| 21 | Moreover , if nothing could ever be taken for granted , there would be large deadweight losses arising from bargaining and factionalism . |
| 22 | He said that in future ‘ no animals will ever be sold for research purposes . ’ |
| 23 | Many more dishes can be made that go direct from stove to table than could ever be produced for a separate dining room or area . |
| 24 | The old , wild Africa in which rhinos like Samia could wander freely for ever is gone for good ; but at least she is alive and safe , seemingly unconcerned by the fact that her world has shrunk to 10,000 acres of thornbush inside an electric fence . |
| 25 | As for keyboard music , ‘ the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls ’ , the famous Parthenia containing 21 short preludes and dances by Byrd , Bull , and Gibbons , appeared only in late 1612 |