Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [been] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 2 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 6 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 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 | 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 . |