Example sentences of "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 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 3 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 4 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 5 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 6 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 7 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 8 | I just ca n't fathom what they are about any more . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 10 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 15 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 16 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 17 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 18 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |
| 19 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 20 | The young nobleman , Gontran de Boismassif , has just married his equally youthful cousin , but is suddenly acutely conscious that he has never had the facts of life explained to him , and neither his bride nor his tutor ( likewise innocent ) are of any assistance . |
| 21 | Seating depends on room arrangement and table size ; but the more in the centre you are of any line the better your range of vision , and the better placed you are to get involved . |
| 22 | Without studies of that kind , which we certainly do not have , it is proper to remain agnostic on the question of whether regional variations are of any significance . |
| 23 | 151 , are of any relevance to the cases now before the court . |
| 24 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 25 | If published claims are of any real importance others will want to repeat , verify , contradict , or confirm them . |
| 26 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether many such classifications are of any use at all , for it is more difficult to remember the results of the classification than the individual landforms . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the limitations on law reform in general which such an argument would appear to justify , if the views of the public are of any significance at all in this context , then it must be its view of what the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 29 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 30 | I also have a few old postcards if these are of any use . ’ |