Example sentences of "ever [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 2 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 3 | Flags were lowered , tributes flooded in , memorial services were held , culminating in the first one ever for a cricketer at Westminster Abbey . |
| 4 | Gulfstream has created what it claims is the most carefully conceived and designed flight deck and cabin interior ever for a business aircraft , based on extensive ergonomic , anthropomorphic and physiological research . |
| 5 | And five minutes from time , he cheered a meagre 2,363 crowd — Pompey 's lowest ever for a competitive game at home — with a clinical winner after a right-wing burst from Warren Aspinall . |
| 6 | Fischer Fine Art paid the highest price ever for a work by a living sculptor for this ( US$ 250,000 at Sotheby 's , New York in 1972 ) getting into the Guinness Book of Records , and selling the sculpture within a month . |
| 7 | Rosehaugh 's results for 1989/90 revealed a pro-tax loss of £165 million , the largest deficit ever for a UK property enterprise . |
| 8 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 9 | Bantam Press , celebrating the achievement by Jilly Cooper 's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous ( £14.99 ) of a subscription of 70,000 copies , the company 's highest ever for a hardback novel , is now looking forward to a further boost for the book when the CD and cassette single ‘ Lysander 's Theme ’ is released on 10th May . |
| 10 | Is that not the best case ever for a clear promotions policy ? |
| 11 | On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements . |
| 12 | In the States it would be preferable to do a set number of smaller theatre-type places , rather than slogging round for ever as a support band . |
| 13 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 14 | Edinburgh University , they 'll take copies of them and keep them there for ever as a sort of reference museum . |
| 15 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 16 | The £330m cash being paid makes this the biggest sale ever of a family-owned company . |
| 17 | Launched in the Autumn of 1991 in the United States , Marquis is now believed to be the sixth most popular line of premium crystal sold in the U.S. during 1992 — one of the most successful launches ever of a new crystal brand in that country . |
| 18 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 19 | They turned and waited silently as Jackie Tiptoe 's distinctive shape , looking in the queer light more than ever like a gargoyle escaped from a cathedral , made its way across the grass with a swift , hiccupping run . |
| 20 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 21 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 22 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 23 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 24 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 25 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 26 | General Manager Rogerson added : ‘ We are running more trains than ever with a maximum of 26 per day in the height of our season . |
| 27 | Fiat 's cultural showplace , the Palazzo Grassi , collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum and produces an exhibition that is beautiful but misses the mark |
| 28 | But she had never realized quite how much knowledge she had assimilated until today , until she had been forced into conversation for the first time ever with a total stranger . |
| 29 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 30 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |