Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 2 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 3 | She 's not been any more so I 'll have to go round to . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ To be honest , we have not been any busier this year but the accident toll has been higher than in previous times . ’ |
| 6 | There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 . |
| 7 | As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study . |
| 8 | But a Garda spokesman in Dundalk said : ‘ There has not been any notable increase in crime , certainly no more so than in any other area . ’ |
| 9 | Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so . |
| 10 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 11 | Though politicians often claim that the authority the law claims for itself is justified , there has hardly been any political theorist in recent times who has shared this view . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 13 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 14 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 15 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 16 | There have n't been any other erm any other areas er , of complaint with er |
| 17 | There have n't been any major er , examples of er , bed blocking in , in the , in the county , so that part of it seems to have worked er , smoothly . |
| 18 | Oh well that was lucky cos there have n't been any more |
| 19 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 20 | Indeed , as far as I am aware , there have not been any previous accidents of this nature within the tunnel . |
| 21 | I 've not seen any there 's not been any more in erm workmen in . |
| 22 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 23 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 24 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |