Example sentences of "ever to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At odds of 500-1 , Terimon became the longest-priced horse ever to be placed in the Epsom Classic . |
| 2 | The glitter of A-levels in today 's broader , more diverse , degree market is starting to tarnish , and is unlikely ever to be restored to its former glory . |
| 3 | He was too much of a nonconformist in his origins , too much of an individualist , at that time too much of an oddity , ever to be really happy in so tight-knit a community as a boarding-school . |
| 4 | Here is the very subway corridor in which , in 1980 , Lord Home , Sir Alec as was , became the most celebrated personage ever to be mugged on the Underground system . |
| 5 | Mr Solarz is unlikely ever to be president . |
| 6 | If he was ever to be an artist , he should strive for more balance . |
| 7 | If Versailles is ever to be refurnished in Sun King style , it will have to become an hotel . |
| 8 | Scarcely ever to be used in war — and as ineffective as so many of these guns were when she was — Mons Meg was nevertheless a source of pride then , and is admired to this day by visitors to Edinburgh Castle . |
| 9 | If nothing from an historic house is ever to be sold , how is the roof to be repaired ? |
| 10 | The first hole in one ever to be recorded at the fourth gave Jeff Sluman the early momentum and his 65 caught Lanny Wadkins , who has now been under par in seven consecutive rounds at Augusta . |
| 11 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 12 | But even this overestimates the degree of homogeneity : some Nigerians were rich enough to escape being ‘ black ’ ; some whites were always too poor ever to be ‘ white ’ . |
| 13 | An agreeable sort of departure , a legal exit to which no legal re-entry was ever to be forthcoming . |
| 14 | There had been no census since 1932 — nor was there ever to be a census again . |
| 15 | He is a V1 winner , the highest rated German dog ever to be imported into the UK . |
| 16 | Anyone buying the house is faced with the problem of demolishing all the extensions if it is ever to be restored to its former glory . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 18 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 19 | From this time , nothing was ever to be the same again . |
| 20 | Weighing 60 tons , a new transformer for South Electricity Board 's sub-station in Hindhead , was the biggest load ever to be brought into the district by road . |
| 21 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 22 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 23 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 24 | If the lead were ever to be sold to radiation detector manufacturers it would raise more than the £24000 it has cost to salvage the hull . |
| 25 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy . |
| 27 | He remains the only deaf person in Britain ever to be appointed headmaster of a deaf school by a local education authority . |
| 28 | The News of the World called it ‘ The most shocking sporting event ever to be screened ’ and newsmen from around the world hurried to interview the organizers of the Sex Olympics when it was announced that these very contemporary games were due to be staged in 1971 . |
| 29 | That first post-natal subservience , bred of physical dependence , was too ingrained ever to be totally eradicated . |
| 30 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |