Example sentences of "[vb infin] been any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His unhappiness should not have been any great surprise , as St John 's was known as a high Anglican school , elitist and exclusive . |
| 3 | Could they have been any worse , do you think ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
| 8 | He could have been any one of the brothers . |
| 9 | So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The path that is output might have been any one of many equal interpretations . ) |
| 12 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 13 | Mm , so it would n't have been any good going in . |
| 14 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | So would she really have been any less affected if it had happened to her now , at the age of twenty-five ? |
| 19 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |