Example sentences of "ever [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the communication that does exist between schools and parents , in most schools there 's , there is plenty of communication but it 's hardly ever about the curriculum . |
| 2 | It started him thinking harder than ever about the woman who he was certain had borne his own child . |
| 3 | It is curious that such a close relative of the hibernating hedgehog , the mole — which also feeds on earthworms and insects — remains as active as ever during the winter . |
| 4 | Are rescues ever worth the effort ? |
| 5 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 6 | A spokesman said ‘ This is the most dramatic period in ferry travel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and the best time ever for the customer . ’ |
| 7 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 8 | Then there were ads , more than ever for the sake of the season . |
| 9 | Over the next days , the girls swam , took long walks , talked , and ate Cook 's meals which seemed more wonderful than ever after the school 's frugal fare . |
| 10 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 11 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 12 | A new survey for 1993 , ‘ Pay and Benefits in the Hospitality Industry ’ , will give the most representative review ever of the payment structure and wage costs in the UK hotel and catering industry . |
| 13 | This autumn , the biggest show ever of the painter 's painter : Matisse |
| 14 | We are more conscious than ever of the need to take positive steps to promote the full access of girls and women not only to full educational opportunities but also to the whole range of community resources and services , including employment , leisure , housing , social security and the right to property . |
| 15 | In response , Mr Burgreen undertook what he says is the most extensive study ever of the use of force by policemen . |
| 16 | Officials in London and Washington have insisted the relationship is as strong as ever despite the transmission last night of a TV programme highlighting the help given to George Bush 's presidential campaign by Tory Party workers . |
| 17 | Now I know that 's not selected and I do n't make any complaint about that erm far from it er I would not complain ever against the chair but I did introduce erm well I do n't and I would n't but I erm introduced the erm first reading of a bill on this matter yesterday . |
| 18 | The colour flooded her face , then receded , leaving her paler than ever beneath the surface tan . |
| 19 | And then I shall be flung for ever into the River of the Dead … |
| 20 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 21 | ‘ And they say that after the Conablaiche would come the Lad of the Skins , ’ said the soldier , and a sudden silence fell , because everyone knew about the Lad of the Skins and the Knife of Light , and how , if you fell into the Lad 's clutches , he would take your soul and you would be thrown for ever into the Prison of Hostages . |
| 22 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 23 | He had climbed through her window in the sweet nights , nights that would torment his memory for ever with the perfume of darkness and intrigue . |
| 24 | He would live for ever with the torchlight glimpse of a wide-eyed corpse dribbling blood from a broken neck and see Miss Tuckey 's eyes above the gag that smelled of vomit and was stained with more blood from he had to realise a deliberately bitten tongue … |
| 25 | ‘ I have a great fear , ’ she whispered , more than ever with the voice of a seagull . |
| 26 | The rack-mounting multi-effects processor 's main generic competitor is the self-contained floor-standing unit , and the choice of the latter is now wider than ever with the arrival of Korg 's A4 . |
| 27 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 28 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 29 | Crossing for the last time that stretch of dusty plain which lay between Krishnapur and the railhead , the Collector experienced more strongly than ever before the vastness of India ; he realized then , because of the widening perspective , what a small affair the siege of Krishnapur had been , how unimportant , how devoid of significance . |
| 30 | ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’ |