Example sentences of "if ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Shaw once described Romeo and Juliet as ‘ the impetuous march of music ’ , and if ever there was a play of rich language , this is it . |
| 2 | O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little . |
| 3 | If ever I meet a woman who says ‘ give me time ’ again , I shall become a Carmalite ! ’ |
| 4 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 5 | ( If ever there was a lesson to be learnt in today 's world , competition definitely did not work ! ) |
| 6 | If ever there was proof needed that public opinion works , this is it . |
| 7 | In such dances physical contact between lovers rarely if ever takes place . |
| 8 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 9 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 11 | Ian Balding , the winning trainer who sent out Mill Reef to win the Arc in 1971 , said : ‘ If ever a horse deserves to win a Group One race it is Silver Fling . |
| 12 | Robbins observed also that the world , not higher education alone , will suffer if ever they cease to regard ( the advancement of knowledge ) as one of their major functions . |
| 13 | It was never going to happen before the next Parliament , if ever . ’ |
| 14 | It was never going to happen before the next Parliament , if ever . ’ |
| 15 | She refused and still today has no intention of tying the pound to the deutschmark this side of a general election , if ever . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , lads , there goes a mad bastard if ever there was one . ’ |
| 17 | But , significantly , this is rarely if ever what those writers advocated . |
| 18 | ‘ I can pay for the damage if ever so bad . |
| 19 | ‘ To choose time is to save time , ’ Francis Bacon said , a go-getter if ever there was one . |
| 20 | IF EVER there was a country where budget ideas are welcomed it is Japan , and a useful one now emerges : those unable to afford the bullet train — shinkansen — should look to long-distance buses , which can produce a saving ofas much as 40per cent . |
| 21 | There was seldom if ever a time when all Western governments , or even all those within the EC , were equally active in relations with the East . |
| 22 | If ever emigres were to be welcomed back , as is suddenly the case in Czechoslovakia , he could have an important role in economic planning . |
| 23 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 24 | If ever there was a place waiting for the missionary preachings of the energy efficiency industry it must be there . |
| 25 | It is rarely , if ever , possible to start with a clean sheet of paper : the starting point has to be the existing force structure and the current consensus of opinion within Whitehall . |
| 26 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 27 | Some of the priests and pastors who joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament seemed to have abandoned the fundamental Christian belief that God brought the world into existence and will determine when , if ever , it will come to an end . |
| 28 | If ever I did meet a man I could love , I should love him ’ — her voice dropped again — ‘ Platonically ’ … |
| 29 | But most buyers need to ask themselves how often — if ever — they need such ultimate traction , and what else they could do with £2000 . |
| 30 | She would bite off all his fingers and eat them , the way Smallfry said she would if ever he was caught stealing . |