Example sentences of "have be [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 2 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 3 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 4 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 5 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 7 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 8 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 9 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 10 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 11 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 12 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 13 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 14 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 15 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 16 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 17 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 18 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |