Example sentences of "have ever been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
2 | No present had ever been better gift-wrapped . |
3 | If there had ever been any chance that the Whigs might lose the support of the great mass of the population , the poor , the unpropertied , the emergent working class , that possibility had now gone . |
4 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
5 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
6 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |