Example sentences of "[noun] have ever [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many countries besides America , public opinion strongly supports capital punishment — undeterred by the fact that no criminological study has ever been able to prove that it reduces crime . |
| 2 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 3 | Only a minority of farm workers have ever been unionized and the history of rural trade unionism has been a chequered one , alternating between brief heady periods of success and long periods of stagnation and weakness . |
| 4 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 5 | And they had , over and over again , so many times that no one except me seemed to remember that things had ever been different . |
| 6 | Neither OED nor the Supplement has ever been profitable in itself . |
| 7 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 8 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 9 | We even did ‘ Goodbye to Clonakilty ’ ( a title no one in the Church has ever been able to explain ) , and , when it was quite dark , the group over by the trees lit a fire and we went into ‘ Ella Walsh 's Foxtrot ’ or ‘ Bless the Lord and Shame the Devil ’ . |
| 10 | Unlike the Shetland version where the baby was rescued by a young lad who later married the lass he had saved from death , the Faroese story is one of heroism but sadness , where the mother climbed to the eyrie ( which no man had ever been able to do ) only to find that her baby was dead . |
| 11 | No other man had ever been able to arouse more than a tingle of interest in her . |
| 12 | Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void . |
| 13 | No present had ever been better gift-wrapped . |
| 14 | And not a single functionary , manager or administrator has ever been involved in proceedings of this nature . ’ |
| 15 | In the United States , where many fewer industries have ever been state-owned , the shift from public to private mainly took the form of reducing government regulation of activities such as air transport ( ‘ deregulation ’ ) . |
| 16 | Few projects have ever been successful . |
| 17 | It is doubtful if , even in the nineteenth century , the power of the British literary mind over the earth has ever been greater than in the late twentieth century . |