Example sentences of "if ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 3 | I have rarely if ever met a prison administrator , who does not subscribe to the doctrine that work for prisoners is the best training for life after release , and that it is also the best mechanism for running a humane and tidy prison . |
| 4 | Even when assemblies rarely if ever met and capitularies were no longer read , the idea of the realm survived in myth , symbol and tradition . |
| 5 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 6 | Much of their music was originally intended for plays or Court masques ; a great deal of it consists of undistinguished melodic declamation , 56 and even the simpler tuneful airs in which they are happiest seldom if ever match the poems of Donne and Herrick , Suckling and Carew , which they set . |
| 7 | And while the improvements helped somewhat , Air Force planners must have realised that the combination of poor flight stability , lower than anticipated speed and range limitations would place the Airacomet at serious risk if ever sent to engage enemy aircraft . |
| 8 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 9 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 10 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |
| 11 | However , things have gone wrong , and if ever Falls now . |
| 12 | This moment is very private and is rarely if ever seen by outsiders , not even glimpsed through a window . |
| 13 | The barbotine technique allowed the potters to display these with a fluid eloquence , although the addition of triple tails of imaginative and flamboyant form clearly shows that these creatures were rarely if ever seen by the potters , or the artists who provided their models . |
| 14 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 15 | Dependent conditionals , secondly , are not to be identified with the " material conditionals " of truth-functional logic , which rarely if ever turn up in ordinary language . |
| 16 | No , mass-produced reproductions — as distinct from limited edition — prints seldom if ever rise in value . |
| 17 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 18 | This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects . |
| 19 | Erm if ever I say if ever get a fifty year old in front of me I say , Hey let's prove them wrong . |
| 20 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 21 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 22 | If ever yow 've parted with that , I warn yer , I 'll kill yer ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’ |
| 24 | The Swedes , however , took shelter within their fortifications ; the invasion , if ever planned , had , it appeared , been called off and in August 1717 the arrested Swedish ambassador was exchanged for the English resident in Sweden , who had been detained in a tit-for-tat reprisal . |
| 25 | In such dances physical contact between lovers rarely if ever takes place . |
| 26 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 27 | I 'd come down and see you all if ever invited . |
| 28 | Victorian literature , after all , seldom if ever deals with the matter , and Wordsworth 's bliss of solitude was an ideal aspiration of the poet , not a state he often claimed to have achieved . |
| 29 | Although one would dearly like more supportive evidence , what we have so far indicates that isolated experiences rarely if ever leave permanent traces — however traumatic and however early they may be . |
| 30 | Many of the younger professionals sought him out to have a look at swings and putting strokes that were out of tune , and he rarely if ever refused them his advice . |