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

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1 He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender .
2 The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles .
3 At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’
4 Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time .
5 There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house .
6 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 .
7 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
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