Example sentences of "[noun pl] have ever [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And they had , over and over again , so many times that no one except me seemed to remember that things had ever been different . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 6 | Few projects have ever been successful . |