Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 3 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |
| 4 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 5 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |