Example sentences of "had [adv] been [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible .
2 It had now been demonstrated beyond any doubt that this was real war and that any prospect of retaking the Falklands as an uninterrupted triumphal procession was illusory .
3 That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer .
4 Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle .
5 Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger .
6 He had never been charged with any criminal offence .
7 She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity .
8 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 .
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