Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before . |
| 2 | If I was her I would have said that was a bloody compliment if ever there was |
| 3 | Even then , however , there was a preference to use the general subsidies for new suburban houses while ever these remained in force . |
| 4 | The Tories say they campaigned harder in this election than ever before . |
| 5 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 6 | He was in genial , generous mood as ever . |
| 7 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ ( a worryingly hubris-tinted title if ever there was one ) is an album full of perfectly competent , if uninspired songs about love , decay , child abuse and space travel . |
| 8 | More waders spent the winter of 1991/92 in British estuaries than ever before , according to the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 9 | The two boats rubbed and banged at the gunwales , and when Pascoe — a Cornish giant if ever there was one — jumped from one to the other , both craft rocked violently . |
| 10 | This was , however , his notorious Reichstag speech on 30 January 1939 , when , in far more menacing fashion than ever before , Hitler made his threatening ‘ prophecy ’ that a new war would bring ‘ the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe ’ . |
| 11 | The two sides remained as far apart on the German problem as ever , however , and there was actually no threat the Soviets could make , short of military action , which could force concessions . |
| 12 | But during the nineteenth century soldiers were perhaps more continuously prominent in this way than ever before . |
| 13 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 14 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 15 | ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living … |
| 16 | INTERNATIONAL dressage at Goodwood from May 1-3 , which is being sponsored by Hermes for the fourth year , is attracting more foreign competitors than ever before , writes Anne Ince . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for tour operator Thomson , which is taking 80,000 people away , said : ‘ We are going to have people further afield this Christmas than ever before . |
| 18 | This was an ordinary crime if ever he 'd seen one . |
| 19 | If this is indeed the case , the country will be faced with a permanent pool of three to four million unemployed and an increasing number of pensioners : and add to this the fact that there are a greater number of industrialised nations than ever before , including many , in the Far East in particular , not only affecting , but embarrassing , large sections of our established business . |
| 20 | ONE of Cleveland biggest annual fundraising events is challenging local businesses to make a bigger splash than ever this year . |
| 21 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
| 22 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 23 | It is likely then that marriages , at least amongst the propertied , in fact lasted longer during the Victorian period than ever before or since . |
| 24 | It 'll be a bigger bone than a bigger bone than ever the poll tax was . |
| 25 | A heavier emphasis than ever before was being laid in the later eighteenth century , notably by monarchs themselves , on a ruler 's duties to his subjects . |
| 26 | By the last decades of the seventeenth century a much heavier emphasis than ever before was being placed on the need for honesty , for the diplomat to behave in a way which inspired confidence in those with whom he dealt . |
| 27 | And it will probably be around the 19th — a magical day if ever there was one — that a fateful meeting or journey takes place . |
| 28 | More beds are being used in real terms than ever before … ‘ |
| 29 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 30 | In this context , it is likely that changes in the nature of marital relations resulting from the increasingly private nature of family life , together with an increasing tendency by working people to plan for the future , were the most important variables explaining the decrease in working class fertility during the inter-war years , at a time when the employed working man enjoyed a more regular and higher real wage than ever before . |