Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 4 | For example , one migrant volunteered to organize the meal served at the annual Harvest Home , but he replaced the traditional supper of Orkney dishes with a meal that could have been served in any restaurant in the south of Scotland . |
| 5 | It does not even follow that the research base should have been developed in any institution of higher education . |
| 6 | for he will have been acquitted in any event . |
| 7 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 8 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 9 | It was a stupid decision , indicating only the severity of the government 's dollar crisis , and it is incredible that it should have been implemented without any discussion with the country 's major exhibitor . |
| 10 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 11 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 12 | Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems . |
| 13 | But as he was not an upper-class Londoner , we can guess that his testimony would have been rejected in any case . |
| 14 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 15 | Horne could have been killed at any hour . |
| 16 | The basic expense of providing and running the school would have been incurred in any event : therefore that expenditure is not caused by the provision of the benefit for the employee . |
| 17 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 18 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 19 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 20 | I would n't have been bothered about any other cos you see it better on the , on the screen . |
| 21 | The link record is usually not redundant , that is , it contains useful information in itself ( in the relational model , it may well have been specified in any case , as a separate relation formed from a relationship in the data analysis phase ) . |
| 22 | er the costs which would have been paid in any event that 's all the case is |
| 23 | Waiting to see how the social fund would be administered in practice would leave advisers unsure and the issue should ideally have been included in any training on the new social security regulations . |
| 24 | He was a nice , quiet , well brought up lad who would have been welcomed by any girl 's mother as prospective husband material . |
| 25 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 26 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 27 | McCann suggests that the idea of having a march through the city centre to commemorate him was inspired by this desire to provoke the authorities ; but given the importance of the centenary , it is likely that some kind of parade would have been organised in any case . |
| 28 | His prejudiced expectations of orientalism were confounded by restrained furnishings which could have been chosen by any Home Counties newly-wed and an offer not of tea but of gin . |
| 29 | The course provided tremendous excitement and thanks largely to the 18th hole I doubt whether it could have been topped by any course in the country . |