Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians . |
| 2 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 3 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 4 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 5 | In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived . |
| 6 | That made the system look more Erastian than it ever looked before . |
| 7 | In these passages there is a feeling of necessary novocaine ; morally we are like the refrigerated tongue on the dentist 's chair , mouth open as wide as it ever goes to the instruments of pain , but speechless . |
| 8 | It is now as quiet as it ever gets in Balham . |
| 9 | It is an irony that in this mechanical age the Royal Veterinary College is probably as secure as it ever has been , while the scientific and professional challenges become ever more complex . |