Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been any " 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 Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so .
7 There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy .
8 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 .
9 There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 .
10 In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity .
11 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 . ’
12 Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder .
13 The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years .
14 ‘ Well , there has n't been any question of it up till now .
15 There has n't been any danger to us .
16 In case anyone is wondering why there has n't been any coverage of LASMO 's tournament-winning broomball team recently , it 's because there is no ice on the Broadgate rink .
17 The committee meet the sub the committee has not met yet , because there has n't been any action , and we wo n't be meeting until we get some movement from any of those three agencies who 'll be replying to us .
18 There has n't been any post for me by any chance , has there , Iris ? ’
19 There has n't been any attempt about savings , or reduced commitments or any , or everything is here , and if it has n't been attempts , perhaps we could have a list of what 's actually been removed .
20 Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way .
21 ‘ I hope there has n't been any kind of trouble , ’ she said , watching the policemen disappear up the path .
22 ‘ I would like to comment , ’ he adds , ‘ that I notice there has n't been any improvement of your journalistic content . ’
23 There has n't been any orange since Monday !
24 There 's hardly , there has n't been any snow around here
25 Well there has n't been any success under John McGregor .
26 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 .
27 As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force .
28 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 .
29 Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England .
30 There has never been any corroboration .
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