Example sentences of "have been any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 2 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 3 | If I could have answered all the questions it would n't have been any fun at all . |
| 4 | There would n't have been any planets or stars then . |
| 5 | THERE could n't have been any doubt of ’ innovative thinking after managing director presented this packet of breakfast cereal at the Financial Times Food & Drink Conference in March . |
| 6 | It may even be fair to say that if this were not so , then surely there would never have been any life experience at all . |
| 7 | She swung round to him , grinding out in a low voice , ‘ She must n't have been any beginner , not goin , by the uncles the child 's had . |
| 8 | but it could have been any hour of the day |
| 9 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 10 | Defending solicitor Bob Booker told the court : ‘ If the grating which surrounds the washing area had been clear there should n't have been any problems . |
| 11 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 12 | We shafted Connelly when we took his shipment of coke but a gang war would n't have been any use to either of us . |
| 13 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 14 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 15 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 16 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 17 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 19 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 20 | There would n't have been any point anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ There would n't have been any point would there ? |
| 22 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 23 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 24 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 25 | It could have been any letter . |
| 26 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 27 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |
| 28 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 29 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |