Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] any [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected .
2 Obviously , they take time to adjust to being someone 's pet , but the love they will give is worth any effort put in .
3 Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded .
4 Joseph Wolf , who later worked as an artist for Gould , once said , ‘ to have been in any way associated with Charles Darwin is an event in a man 's life . ’
5 He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved .
6 Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged .
7 This does not mean that the objective differences in wealth and income have been in any way reduced , but relationships have become easier and more informal .
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