Example sentences of "[verb] been any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 32 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 33 | We shafted Connelly when we took his shipment of coke but a gang war would n't have been any use to either of us . |
| 34 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 35 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 36 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 37 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 38 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 39 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 40 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 41 | There would n't have been any point anyway . |
| 42 | ‘ There would n't have been any point would there ? |
| 43 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 44 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 45 | It could have been any letter . |
| 46 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |
| 47 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 48 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 49 | Difficulties arise because there does not seem to have been any system of numbering or any attempt to group subjects . |
| 50 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 51 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 52 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 53 | … there does not seem to have been any dispute between the parties [ in Tharsis Sulphur ] . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | If there had been any apprehension involving the time taken to complete the recording , there is certainly none reflected in the finished product . |
| 58 | If there had been any chance ever of the rescues ' succeeding , that perception would have destroyed it . |
| 59 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 60 | 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 . |