Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [adj] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 2 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
| 3 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 4 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 5 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 6 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 7 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 8 | So far as the avoidance of an election commitment was concerned , this would have been sensible from any point of view . |
| 9 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 10 | I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day . |
| 11 | Having contemplated the relativity of all motions within the universe , Nicholas would have been astonished by any suggestion that a moving earth was destructive of a Christian world-view . |