Example sentences of "[pron] be any " in BNC.

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1 Oh you can income support but it 's not why should I be any different .
2 Anybody can write a biography about a nobody these days , why should Dick and I be any different ?
3 All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ?
4 And would she be any better off than Miss Ernestine Baker , at the end of it , without Daniel ?
5 Yeah but not only that I mean , if they get paid double time everywhere else why should we be any bloody different ?
6 He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it .
7 Last of the great chevaliers , we tell her that should there be any problem with the restaurant management , she will have to take full responsibility for her actions .
8 Nor can there be any doubt that the result would be a headlong descent into ruin , confusion , naked revolution and the final doom of our country .
9 Will there be any tax liability ?
10 ‘ How could there be any intent to deceive people into thinking it is French champagne ?
11 Will there be any alterations needed to the bulkheads and footwells ?
12 Could there be any guarantee , given the public disquiet , high initial costs and debatable economics , that any private investor would actually choose to buy nuclear ?
13 For ‘ The great centralized State is a tremendous historical step forward from medieval disunity to the future socialist unity of the whole world , and only via such a State ( inseparably connected with capitalism ) can there be any road to socialism . ’
14 Now , if there be any place in the world in which people are deprived of that portion of temper and discretion which are necessary to the contemplation of beauty , it is there .
15 How can there be any doubt ? ’
16 If marriage exists to create some kind of secure relationship , from which flow mutual rights and expectations , and to provide a stable environment for raising children , if there be any , but is not predicated solely on the opportunity for intercourse , then it can legitimately be extended to cover the union of two persons , one of whom is an operated transsexual .
17 No longer will there be any threat or coldness , for the compassion softens everything and all life can take on a new meaning .
18 ‘ Whatsoever things are true , honest , just , pure , lovely , of good report ; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise , think on these things . ’
19 ‘ Whatsoever things are true , honest , just , pure , lovely , of good report ; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise , think on these things . ’
20 In no circumstances whatsoever will there be any admission that the real basic cause of the failure is the one that is most feared to be true .
21 Nor would there be any point in living in such a village unless one were largely prepared to conform to its public mores since otherwise one could not be within the community in any real sense .
22 Should there be any doubt about the direction the hole now takes it is often useful to insert along stick up the hole .
23 No reason has to be given either to her present doctor or to the one to whom she wishes to change , but undoubtedly it can facilitate the change-over and make the new doctor more likely to be willing to accept her if she has some sensible but low-key reason ready should there be any query .
24 And lest there be any misunderstanding as to the intensity of the attachment Lugard had in mind , it may be noted that his thinking revealed itself quite clearly on the subject of loyalty when he wrote of military matters and the secret of command .
25 Should there be any sand or gravel on the bottom of the pond for plants to root in ?
26 Avoid grounding your putter head at address should there be any chance of the ball moving .
27 Would there be any likelihood of a future charge under inheritance tax ?
28 A cremated body can not be exhumed should there be any suspected need for re-examination at a later date .
29 Yet should there be any misconceptions of Jesus 's seriousness on this matter , when asked by Peter if he should forgive seven times ( perhaps interpreting Jesus as putting a limit on forgiveness ) Jesus replies , ‘ I tell you not seven times but seventy-seven times ’ ( Matt. 18:22 ) .
30 Would there be any ministers left ? ’
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