Example sentences of "ever a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was ever a classic is about the laziest bastard on this side of Christendom and he and he he would n't do anything that supports your business at all |
| 2 | ‘ If there 's ever a fairground revival , ’ his grandad , who had a stake in the business , would insist , ‘ we 'll be laughing all the way to the bank . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Were you ever a Tiller girl with the new Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd ? |
| 4 | Is that ever a problem ? |
| 5 | The purchaser hopes that if ever a court considers any one level of protection to be unreasonable , it may sever this from the agreement and leave the other covenants untouched or impose a more reasonable amended form . |
| 6 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 7 | ‘ I was ever a gambler , remember ? ’ |
| 8 | Raymond Williams writes : ‘ A working country is hardly ever a landscape . ’ |
| 9 | Though Biggin was ever a fighter station , a second theme for the 1992 Air Fair is ‘ Bombers ’ , with Diamond Lil making another appearance , along with Sally B , the BBMF Lancaster , BAe 's Mosquito , the Vulcan and a Tornado . |
| 10 | Even if you just use them as memory joggers , they could prove invaluable if there is ever a quarrel about who actually said what and when . |
| 11 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 12 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 13 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |
| 14 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 15 | ‘ Were you ever a dancer ? ’ |
| 16 | There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave . |
| 17 | Niki was ever a patient , careful driver and not being on pole never bothered him , because what mattered was the race . |
| 18 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 19 | And , if ever a subject needs intelligibility , it is race . |
| 20 | If there were ever a Government who had a different view of industrial relations and a different relationship with the trade unions , who knows whether events such as my hon. Friend mentioned might not occur again ? |
| 21 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 22 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 23 | But the memory of being caught and injected never faded , and even a year later the cat would still rush upstairs and hide beneath the bed if ever a man visited the house . |
| 24 | If ever a man deserves an honour from his country , it 's this man . ’ |
| 25 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 26 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 27 | There is a touch of the actor in every good schoolmaster , but it must be doubted if there was ever a man in whom the two professions were so evenly balanced . |
| 28 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 29 | ‘ He was ever a man of terrible rectitude , ’ said Owen dispassionately , half-closing his eyes to peer back into a past he hardly ever dwelt on now . |
| 30 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |