Example sentences of "been [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 2 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 8 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 9 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 10 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 11 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Had she been in any way party to that act ? |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 20 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 21 | That 's never been in any doubt — particularly to him . |
| 22 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 23 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 24 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
| 28 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 29 | Well , I do n't know cos I have n't been to any meetings for months , not |
| 30 | The present crop of portrait painters is uninspiring : ‘ Have you been to any degree shows ? |