Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] been any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 2 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 3 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 4 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Maclean insisted that it was nonsense to suggest there had been any contamination of the food chain or to make comparisons to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 9 | If there had been any chance ever of the rescues ' succeeding , that perception would have destroyed it . |
| 10 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 11 | Have there had been any stories in the media or er television programmes . |
| 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 | If there had been any apprehension involving the time taken to complete the recording , there is certainly none reflected in the finished product . |
| 14 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 15 | I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Restraining the wish to thank His Royal Highness for his co-operation , Rose asked the detective whether there had been any incidents at the dining table involving exchange of plates . |
| 18 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 19 | It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep . |
| 20 | If there had been any money in the first place . |
| 21 | On the one hand , only three per cent of credit buyers said that there had been any difficulty getting the sort of terms they wanted — more or less regardless of what type-of credit they actually used , or of their socio-economic background . |
| 22 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 23 | The local member for South Ronaldsay and Burray , Councillor Cyril Annal , wrote to Orkney Health Board asking whether there had been any consultation with Health Board employees and general practitioners prior to the removal of the nine children from their homes . |
| 24 | Mr Clarke was questioned closely on whether there had been any consultation with Mrs Shephard . |
| 25 | The magistrate , Mr S.K. Upadhyaya , resplendent among the dusty villagers in a navy blazer and a silver-tipped walking stick , denied that there had been any attempt to intimidate voters . |
| 26 | At least , if there had been any dust it would have been sweeping it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Before the emergence of the Teds there had been any number of alarms from the 1940s onwards about street violence , robbery attacks , ‘ Blitz kids ’ and ‘ cosh boys ’ . |
| 29 | Mrs. Healey denied that there had been any collision and proposed to call expert evidence to prove that any damage to the plaintiff 's car could not have been done by her car . |
| 30 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |