Example sentences of "[pron] have not 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 There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 .
3 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 .
4 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 . ’
5 Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 There have n't been any other erm any other areas er , of complaint with er
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Indeed , as far as I am aware , there have not been any previous accidents of this nature within the tunnel .
13 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 .
14 , 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 .
15 We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual .
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