Example sentences of "ever in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't done shyly , it was the most self righteous platform ever in the history of popular music . ’ |
| 2 | The arrest of that worm had been the greatest cross Don had ever had to carry , the most dangerous traitor ever in the history of the government 's security service . |
| 3 | Origin 's superb RPG gets the biggest vote of the night , and possibly ever in the history of the ZZAP ! awards . |
| 4 | As Mr. Charles Webster , the national health service historian , recently told ’ Newsnight ’ , that meant a splurge of spending at the beginning that was followed by the most desperate and dangerous cuts ever in the history of the national health service . |
| 5 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 6 | Gary Tritton , chief interest rate swap trader , had been watching the Bank of England 's £800m tap issue , the first ever in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | Ever in the presence of a potentially hostile population , the administration must perforce dominate : and the mechanism by which this is accomplished is the regime of decrees . |
| 8 | He directed that the governors of the College should ‘ apply the interest and proceeds thereof annually for ever in the purchase of a Medal to be given Annually to the author of the best dissertation on the Anatomy , Physiology , or Pathology of the foot of the horse , or the principles and practice of shoeing horses ( to be decided by Examiners , viz. either Veterinary examiners or Veterinary surgeons , to be appointed by the Governors at their annual meeting ) ’ . |
| 9 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 10 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |
| 11 | Was your father ever in the army ? |
| 12 | Souness , 39 , is training with his first-team squad every day and has warned them he will be as demonstrative as ever in the dug-out . |
| 13 | The good news is that the surplus of a hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred and eighty seven pounds after tax is the largest ever in the Association 's history . |
| 14 | Everything he bore in hand was but half-achieved and for ever in the balance ; yet if at this moment there was a prince in Wales , his name was Owen , and Owen knew it . |
| 15 | His hopes are set , as ever in the context of the whole — his seas , hill and woods , and mossy apple trees — but his emotions are very specific to the time and place , and environment in which he writes . |
| 16 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 17 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
| 18 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 19 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 20 | Another time , Lucy talked about Jeremy , his father 's wastrel shadow ever in the background . |
| 21 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 23 | Worse still , one might be swallowed for ever in the morass . |
| 24 | " All the same , I do n't believe that fellow was ever in the Merchant Navy . " |
| 25 | Their only child , christened Alastair but known for ever in the family as ‘ Mouse ’ , was born within a year of their marriage . |
| 26 | They wear well , too ( so the young mothers tell me ) since the children 's garments are for ever in the washing machine . |