Example sentences of "ever to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 2 | The first hole in one ever to be recorded at the fourth gave Jeff Sluman the early momentum and his 65 caught Lanny Wadkins , who has now been under par in seven consecutive rounds at Augusta . |
| 3 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 4 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 5 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy was , at 43 , the youngest man ever to be elected President of the USA . |
| 6 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 7 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 8 | Here is the very subway corridor in which , in 1980 , Lord Home , Sir Alec as was , became the most celebrated personage ever to be mugged on the Underground system . |
| 9 | We are watching the brides of Christ probably never ever to be seen again in the year two thousand and fifty six . |
| 10 | Richard was the youngest man ever to be made Head of so large a school . |
| 11 | There is also the question of your sister 's reputation if her part in this , er … concealment were ever to be made public . |
| 12 | In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’ |
| 13 | Her wreath in the shape of a tank bore the message ‘ As you once said , there is too much love between us ever to be separated ’ . |
| 14 | Radical views like this seem unlikely ever to be accepted by the cardinals who dictate the dominant conservative teaching . |
| 15 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 16 | Mr. Lloyd said that in such a case the discretion to order rectification against a bona fide purchaser , such as the building society in the present case , would be very unlikely ever to be exercised . |
| 17 | With John going to Wildenrath , Lindsey decided it was as good a time as ever to be converted onto his aircraft and in October John converted Lindsey onto the Corsair , and in doing so , Lindsey went from 230hp in the ‘ Me 108 ’ to 2,400hp in the Corsair , a horsepower-leap that must be the largest anyone flying warbirds has ever done . |
| 18 | She assumed her sister was referring to getting into Cambridge , which she herself considered a poisonous , disreputable fantasy , and one unlikely ever to be fulfilled : the number of girls who had achieved Cambridge places from Battersby Girls ' Grammar in the last ten years could be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 19 | If Versailles is ever to be refurnished in Sun King style , it will have to become an hotel . |
| 20 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 21 | ‘ Home for the kings of Northumberland and the first English castle ever to be damaged by gunfire . |
| 22 | This was the first systematic survey of stone circles ever to be undertaken and in it Stukeley attempted to prove that the Druids , whom he believed built the circles , were the forefathers of Christianity . |
| 23 | The fact that the sample was on display at all , bore silent testimony to the success of the most expensive and profound voyage ever to be undertaken by man . |
| 24 | In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption . |
| 25 | Hattie was not the kind of woman ever to be troubled by demons . |
| 26 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 27 | The problem of how the digger wasp locates her home has a special place in the history of ethology : it was one of the first questions about behaviour mechanisms ever to be asked , and experimentally answered . |
| 28 | Brazilian soccer was in mourning this week after a match which had commentators wailing about the worst game ever to be witnessed in the hallowed Maracana Stadium . |
| 29 | Only if Denmark 's freedom were ever to be threatened , so the legend ran , would he reawaken in her defence . |
| 30 | The video includes mission highlights , including the most expensive vehicle ever to be built , the Moonbuggy and previews Skylab , Apollo/Soyuz and Shuttle . |