Example sentences of "have been [prep] any " 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 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 5 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 6 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 7 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 8 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 12 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 13 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 14 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 20 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 21 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 22 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 23 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 24 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
| 28 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |