Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun sg] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 2 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 3 | The way we played when beating Leicester at Filbert , we would have been a match for any side , including Villa . ’ |
| 4 | Few if any of the matters on which these parents commented would have been the subject of any explicit policy statement in a school . |
| 5 | The ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ ahs ’ of reverence which greeted this would have been the envy of any priest or preacher . |