Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . "
2 ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering .
3 Neither husband nor daughter had been any help .
4 For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara …
5 She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good .
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