Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 8 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |