Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be any " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine that ! ’ she had said again , to her escort , who wore white gloves , of course , because it was evening , but whose name she could never remember — it might have been any one of half a dozen — and whose fresh , young face was in shadow . |
| 3 | She said carefully , ‘ There is , of course , another way of looking at it , if you can bear , for a moment , to push to one side the thought that there might have been any spiteful intent on my part . ’ |
| 4 | The path that is output might have been any one of many equal interpretations . ) |
| 5 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 6 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 7 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 8 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 9 | It could have been any letter . |
| 10 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 11 | It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman . |
| 12 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 13 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 14 | Given the richness of interconnections between the boxes , it could have been any one of them that was dubbed the conscious one , so we would need something more by way of justification for choosing any particular one . |
| 15 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 16 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
| 17 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 18 | He could have been any one of the brothers . |
| 19 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 20 | So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five . |
| 21 | The iron mine could have been any one of several in this region there are a number of veins or strings of haematite which have been tried , as well as some quite extensive deposits . |
| 22 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 23 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 24 | It could have been any of a whole range of other things . |
| 25 | Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better . |
| 26 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 27 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |