Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nearly eight years after the Bhopal industrial accident , not one person has been paid any compensation for damages .
2 She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’
3 He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century .
4 Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn .
5 Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water .
6 The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia .
7 She who had been refused any kind of hearing , now she would be heard .
8 In another case where an applicant had been refused any access to accounts , the Commissioner 's assistance resulted in a solicitor 's letter being sent to the union .
9 In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her .
10 Of the 69 coarse ware vessels described in this Report , only 12 have been given any indication of date and most of these refer to Wroxeter and Newstead parallels .
11 It seems unfortunate , to say the least , that the premier public sector institution , in terms of the number of students on advanced courses , should , for a variety of historical and political reasons , have been denied any share in teacher training .
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