Example sentences of "been [verb] by any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 2 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 3 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |
| 4 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 5 | That fact that , since Vendelin Gajdusek had apparently never been interviewed by any journalist , he would not see anything out of the ordinary in her particular interviewing technique . |
| 6 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 7 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 8 | My only complaint , and I feel it is an important gripe , is that his hand drawn maps interleaving trackbeds with suggested walking route could well have been made by any millipede unfortunate enough to bathe in an inkwell . |
| 9 | In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus . |
| 10 | I wished to make the simple point that the Labour party 's ’ Fair Rates ’ document makes no reference to students , and to add that , in my view , our proposals offer students the best deal that they have been offered by any system of local finance . |
| 11 | The deed of release furthermore had not been induced by any misrepresentation , so it was a complete bar to any claims by the companies concerning anything that had happened before that agreement took effect . |
| 12 | Although prepared foods are very good there is a feeling that there may be some advantage to live foods in that their vitamins , minerals and so on have not been affected by any processing . |
| 13 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 14 | The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms . |
| 15 | Erm and and I know you I 'm not expecting you to comment on your colleagues , but let me quote something else that Peter Lilley said , The massive expansion of the welfare state since the war , has not been accompanied by any diminution of social problems . |
| 16 | But both overlook the important point that while there is an apparent shift away from the limiting aim of integrating the archaeological and historical data , this has not been accompanied by any reassessment of the appropriate aims and methods of studying the archaeology . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems . |
| 18 | He was a nice , quiet , well brought up lad who would have been welcomed by any girl 's mother as prospective husband material . |
| 19 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 20 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 21 | The Attorney-General referred to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 the questions whether proceedings upon indictment could be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay had not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution , and , if so , what degree of likelihood and seriousness of prejudice was required to justify a stay of such proceedings . |
| 22 | whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; |
| 23 | whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; |
| 24 | ‘ ( i ) whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; ( ii ) if the answer to ( i ) above is in the affirmative what is the degree of : ( a ) the likelihood and ( b ) the seriousness of any prejudice which is required to justify a stay of such proceedings . |
| 25 | No such punishment had been confirmed by any Home Secretary since June 1962 , and it had been used only sparingly before that . |
| 26 | But the task has not yet been achieved by any means . |
| 27 | The course provided tremendous excitement and thanks largely to the 18th hole I doubt whether it could have been topped by any course in the country . |
| 28 | His prejudiced expectations of orientalism were confounded by restrained furnishings which could have been chosen by any Home Counties newly-wed and an offer not of tea but of gin . |