Example sentences of "were ever [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before sophisticated records of income or sales were ever kept , governments raised most of their revenue through customs duties and road tolls , the two places where transactions could be easily monitored . |
| 2 | But this was Vadinimia , where no questions were ever asked that did n't concern anti-theft procedures . |
| 3 | We are with them constantly seven days a week and each day that passes it becomes harder to comprehend that they were ever convicted of such a crime . |
| 4 | I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected . |
| 5 | Although about a hundred rugby balls went into the sea on game days none were ever seen floating on the water for long . |
| 6 | Few of the missing were ever seen again . |
| 7 | It was the last time that they were ever seen alive . |
| 8 | As the future was so uncertain , however , the family retained ownership of all fixtures , fittings and moveable contents — everything that could be stripped out if Thoresby were ever threatened with demolition . |
| 9 | There are many references to our caves but the writers do not seem to have gone beyond the entrances and we are left wondering what they are like inside and most importantly whether they were ever lived in , and if so , by whom . |
| 10 | Police officers from Faringdon and Wantage spent days digging the site , but no remains were ever discovered . |
| 11 | Controls were rejected if blood pressures of 160/100 mm Hg or more were ever recorded under 40 , or 170/105 mm Hg thereafter . |
| 12 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 14 | The basis of this professional disagreement was I think that Professor B. did not regard artificial ventilation as being a ‘ cruel treatment ’ and took a much more optimistic view than Dr. I. as to the likelihood of it being possible to wean J. from such ventilation if it were ever undertaken . |
| 15 | One was experimentally converted by Bölkow to a tricycle undercarriage configuration and designated the BO.214 , but no production examples were ever built . |
| 16 | Even if his New Jerusalem were ever built it would be executed and administered by the people in this city . |
| 17 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 18 | You will be sorry that you were ever born . |
| 19 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 20 | Subjects were asked if they considered they were ever constipated . |
| 21 | During its 25 years with the RAF , the Hercules has fulfilled all the transport demands that were ever placed on it . |
| 22 | However , the Ryder Cup is back in the States and if the match were ever extended to , say 24 players , instead of 12 , then I have not the slightgest doubt that America would win every time . |
| 23 | However , the Ryder Cup is back in the States and if the match were ever extended to , say 24 players , instead of 12 , I have not the slightest doubt that America would win every time . |
| 24 | As long as the note holders had confidence that the issuing goldsmiths could redeem their gold pledges on demand , few notes were ever presented for redemption . |
| 25 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 26 | It was a practical certainty that he would be trying to raise more loans long before these were ever repaid . |
| 27 | If full parity were ever granted , there is a fear that a deadlock could arise and that in addition certain directors might be forced to reveal business secrets to their constituents which could paralyse the operation . |
| 28 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 29 | One wonders how many symphonies were ever composed or how many masterpieces created with that . |
| 30 | It is an interesting question what the French will do with Article 3 of the ‘ Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ’ if a treaty of European Union were ever adopted : ‘ The principle of all sovereignty resides necessarily in the Nation . |