Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 4 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 5 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 6 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 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 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 17 | Joseph Wolf , who later worked as an artist for Gould , once said , ‘ to have been in any way associated with Charles Darwin is an event in a man 's life . ’ |
| 18 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 20 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 21 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 22 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 23 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 24 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 25 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 26 | This does not mean that the objective differences in wealth and income have been in any way reduced , but relationships have become easier and more informal . |