Example sentences of "that have ever " 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 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’ |
| 10 | Of all the glory that has ever been . |
| 11 | The Building News said that it was ‘ the greatest scandal and disgrace that has ever been inflicted on the architectural profession ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Every heresy and man-made religion that has ever been invented presents a fractured picture of Jesus Christ . |
| 15 | The largest of the filter-feeders is , however , far from static and is indeed the biggest animal that has ever lived — the blue whale . |
| 16 | This filter is made up of everything that has ever happened in our life , plus our basic temperament . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To the western world , however , the Swastika is probably the most disturbing image that has ever been associated with a political regime . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But he maintained the new centres will be ‘ different from anything that has ever been provided before ’ . |
| 21 | You realise you have taken part in the best game of rugby that has ever been played ’ — JEREMY GUSCOTT ( Bath and England centre ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | N. Pink Sensation is one of the finest pinks that has ever been cultivated . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 30 | 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 . |