Example sentences of "[conj] there [verb] [adv] been any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years . |
| 2 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 3 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 4 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 7 | I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario . |
| 8 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 9 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 10 | He says if it was Satanic there would be signs of a ritual and there have n't been any . |
| 11 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |
| 12 | Oh well that was lucky cos there have n't been any more |
| 13 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 15 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 20 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 21 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 23 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 24 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 25 | We 'll take any signals from the UK Government but there have n't been any so far |
| 26 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 27 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 28 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 29 | The committee meet the sub the committee has not met yet , because there has n't been any action , and we wo n't be meeting until we get some movement from any of those three agencies who 'll be replying to us . |
| 30 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |