Example sentences of "who have ever [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 2 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 3 | Another simple definition which will appeal to everyone who has ever tried to slim : More weight loss for less willpower ! |
| 4 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 5 | Anyone who has ever tried to grow peaches outdoors will be familiar with ‘ Taphrina deformans ’ , the fungus which causes peach leaf curl disease . |
| 6 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 7 | The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate . |