Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 2 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 3 | Right from the introduction of the smoking habit to Europe , there have been doubts about the effect on health ; only since the 1920s has evidence been gathered in any purposeful way . |
| 4 | Such a dramatic movement of peoples could not have been undertaken by any other contemporary transportation method , and must reflect remarkable activity at the hundreds of newly built stations throughout the system . |
| 5 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 6 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 7 | Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer , recalled the first speech given by a new factory director which could have been given by any Romanian middle-ranking cynical conformist when put in charge of an operation by an arbitrary decision from the top . |
| 8 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 9 | Bowie was a cautious man and his two previous reports on leukaemia incidence in the county had not been tinged with any anti-nuclear sentiment . |
| 10 | As Peterson ( 1980 ) explains , ‘ this approach has not been included in any current spellers , probably because of the lack of an obvious source of known misspellings and the low frequency of even common misspellings ’ . |
| 11 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 12 | There was even a well equipped playground which could have been dropped into any English park almost unnoticed but which looked rather incongruous in the centre of a Mexican prison complex . |
| 13 | On Barro Colorado Island , Drymonia serrulata ( Gesneriaceae ) produces more nectar per day than has been reported from any other bee-pollinated flower . |
| 14 | Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal . |
| 15 | Endowed with a formidable creative vigour , untrammeled by the insularity which bedevilled the English art of his day , forthright in his opinions , he expressed them in prose of clarity which had not been equalled by any British painter since Hogarth , whose art and whose personality his own so closely resembled . |
| 16 | The work was done , as it happens , on Sun and DEC workstations running UNIX , but , as far as this paper is concerned , could have been done on any networked computers . |
| 17 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 18 | The majority of delegations have nevertheless said they are in favour of including such consequences within the scope of the law of contracts , but in order to take account of the opposition expressed provision has been made for any contracting state to enter a reservation on this matter : article 22(1) ( b ) . |
| 19 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |
| 20 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 21 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 22 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 23 | The need for reappraisal in the 1950s was underlined by accumulating evidence that rising standards of material prosperity , education and social welfare had not been matched by any corresponding decline in offending . |
| 24 | In faceted schemes , synthesis is often achieved with the intercession of a facet indicator which makes it possible to identify which parts of the notation have been drawn from any distinct facet . |
| 25 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 26 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 27 | Few of the exhibits , which are expected to fetch around £100,000 in total , come with a guarantee of having been used in any particular film or show . |
| 28 | First , where the obligations are non-cumulative , i.e. the obligation of each is to perform in so far as it has not been performed by any other party , the acceptance of some other performance in lieu of the promised performance relieves the others . |
| 29 | However , the fact that these works had not been shown to any Russian museum curators caused considerable trouble for the organisers . |
| 30 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |