Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 They appeared to have been collected without any method : Wordsworth , Mae West , Saint-Simon , geniuses , criminals , saints , nonentities .
32 Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records .
33 Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing .
34 If a dog has been mistreated at any stage , it can be very difficult to win back its confidence completely .
35 There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not .
36 If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way .
37 Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary .
38 The old grey wood , though still dampish , looked as adequate for its purpose as its fellows still forming the boathouse floor and did n't seem to have been weakened in any way .
39 However , its contents have not yet been revealed in any detail , neither has the valuable Abridgement been considered .
40 A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ?
41 It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution .
42 You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time .
43 In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case .
44 Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted .
45 No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount .
46 Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 .
47 My only complaint , and I feel it is an important gripe , is that his hand drawn maps interleaving trackbeds with suggested walking route could well have been made by any millipede unfortunate enough to bathe in an inkwell .
48 In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus .
49 All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 .
50 Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger .
51 Otherwise fewer than 20 have been seen in any year since 1947 , except 1968 , when 34 passed east up the coast off Pevensey on 7 March , the largest party noted in the county since 1938 .
52 Except in 1953 , when a party of 67 was seen , not more than about 25 birds have been seen in any year since 1947 , and it is of interest that influxes have not occurred in recent severe winters .
53 The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe .
54 The paintings of the Thirties and Forties have not been seen in any sort of proper way and they are quite extraordinary , particularly that last group of interiors which Matisse painted between 1946 and 1948 .
55 The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way .
56 If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins .
57 I would n't have been bothered about any other cos you see it better on the , on the screen .
58 A reward of £7,000 has been offered for any information .
59 I wished to make the simple point that the Labour party 's ’ Fair Rates ’ document makes no reference to students , and to add that , in my view , our proposals offer students the best deal that they have been offered by any system of local finance .
60 These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size .
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