Example sentences of "[been] any [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account .
2 I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair .
3 In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research .
4 There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them .
5 There had never been any doubt in my own mind .
6 But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air .
7 If there had been any money in the first place .
8 There 's never been any communism in Russia communism in China .
9 ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’
10 Well who needs it and why is it necessary to have an international women 's day and has there been any progress in the women 's movement .
11 This meant that the scope for comparing establishment behaviour over time , which would provide some indication of whether there has been any increase in the use of temporary workers [ see Chapter 7 ] , was rather limited .
12 We looked at the industrial distribution of " users " , at whether there had been any increase in their numbers since 1980 and at differences between user and non-user establishments in terms of their size , output , performance , industrial relations and labour force characteristics .
13 Stability tests on pilot batches and on first production batches should be carried out not only in the case of new products but also where there has been any change in the formulation of the product or in the source of the raw materials used or in the equipment used in manufacture or filling or in the method of manufacture or filing .
14 Give a statement showing whether or not , as far as the directors are aware , the company is close for taxation purposes and whether there has been any change in that respect since the year end .
15 Have there had been any stories in the media or er television programmes .
16 She could have been any girl in any photograph .
17 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 .
18 The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , .
19 On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections .
20 Have there been any difficulties in the interpretation and application of that policy in relation to the scale of what is really there on the ground ?
21 Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy .
22 Finally , we compare the findings of the 1984 survey with those of the 1983 and 1986 surveys to see if there has been any growth in temporary working over this period .
23 At least for the period 1980 to 1984 , WIRS fails to offer substantiating evidence that there has been any growth in the use of this form of temporary worker .
24 An important aim of the study was to see if there had been any growth in the use of temporary working in Britain in recent years .
25 ‘ Would there have been any training in destabilisation ? ’
26 With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ?
27 There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of .
28 I do not think that in either case there has been any failure in interpretation of the ideas proposed , but rather that accommodation has been too readily accorded .
29 Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way .
30 He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field .
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