Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [prep] any " in BNC.
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1 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
2 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
3 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
4 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
5 | 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 . ’ |