Example sentences of "[vb mod] ever [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ Honour must ever be done to the Tsar and Russian nation for the noble ardour and loyalty with which they hurled themselves into the war . ’ |
| 2 | His Zoonomia must ever be cherished for its poetic delights as well as its remarkable meditations on the origins of things . |
| 3 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 4 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 5 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 6 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 7 | There are those , however , who find it objectionable that one person should ever be permitted to take the life of another . |
| 8 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 9 | There was no reason why any one of us should ever be unhappy again . |
| 10 | And there was absolutely no reason why a single cancer cell should ever be let loose in any part of our body . |
| 11 | The Nobel prize for religion ( God forbid it should ever be invented ) will not go to a theologian , or like the peace prize be passed round to whoever fits the political needs of the moment ( with all due respect to Bishop Tutu and not much to Mr Begin ) . |
| 12 | The clue to the ambitions of the ASEA is to be found in the plea that the training of youths was to be ‘ a continuance of their education ’ , and an aspect of the committees ' work that ‘ should ever be borne in mind ’ . |
| 13 | Heaven forbid she should ever be inspired by Picasso . |
| 14 | As a general rule , nothing should ever be put on gold leaf . |
| 15 | This is scandalous because no child should ever be turned away from a church . |
| 16 | No check should ever be destroyed ; if errors are made , the word ‘ cancelled ’ should be written across the face and it should be left in its numbered order . |
| 17 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 18 | Nothing white should ever be taken in at the waist . |
| 19 | No search should ever be carried out by a single individual . |
| 20 | ‘ And if , ’ said Bith of the Bog-Hat , ‘ your impress-ship should ever be wanting an armlet or two , or maybe a plain everyday crown circlet , we 'd be happy to oblige . ’ |
| 21 | Heaven forbid that this child should ever be tainted by the grossness of the world ! |
| 22 | In this version of LIFESPAN RDBI the maximum number of mappings that should ever be specified is 301 i.e. one for every user specified at the USER ACCESS , MODULE ACCESS and DC ACCESS keywords and one for the Manager . |
| 23 | Evidence in this area has led to the conclusion that institutions are not capable of providing adequate parenting for the very young child and to the statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1983 ) to the Standing Committee on Children in Care in Britain that no child under the age of three years should ever be placed in a residential nursery . |
| 24 | Ghislain Pascal of Survival International says the Amerindians who live in the area have not been told about the logging plans and deplores the fact that " Samling — which has devastated the lands of the Dayak peoples in Sarawak — should ever be able to negotiate a deal without social and environmental impact assessment being carried out . " |
| 25 | For just the same reason , it is vanishingly improbable that exactly the same evolutionary pathway should ever be travelled twice . |
| 26 | ‘ If I were your woman , God forbid that I should ever be so cursed , I 'd cut all my hair off ! ’ she hissed back through gritted teeth , devastatingly aware of the effect his nearness was having on her traitorous body . |
| 27 | No brewer should ever be afraid of making beer with a distinctive flavour . |
| 28 | ‘ I would if it should ever be offered . |
| 29 | Well I do n't think Hughes should ever be sub like , he should be on the team . |
| 30 | I doubt I 'll ever be fulfilled , but I 'm less manic . |