Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 2 | Once you have input your collection data , Reels allows searching by date , source , quality , song , city etc. or any combination . |
| 3 | Pöhl has said , ‘ I continue to have substantial doubts whether all or any governments would really be willing to relinquish the monetary policy sovereignty of their countries . ’ |
| 4 | Though screening programmes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy have detected cases of Becker muscular dystrophy , whether all or any cases will be detected in this programme is not known . |
| 5 | However , there is no simple way of verifying whether all or any of those adopting the SPG response endorsed this line of reasoning . |
| 6 | The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " |
| 7 | John Dykstra , with Richard Edlund and others , was able to set up a camera rig that moved very precisely in metal tracks , with the camera on an arm that could move up and down , while the camera itself could pan from side to side or tilt up and down or any combination or roll over to the side and also change focus as needed . |
| 8 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 9 | Hundreds of journalists were tried in the purges — ‘ l'épuration ’ — that followed the Liberation : more perhaps than any other profession , journalists paid the price of collaboration . |
| 10 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 11 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 12 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 13 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 14 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 15 | Lenin knew the Middle Volga better than any other leader , for he was born in Simbirsk , not far up river from Samara , had studied at Kazan ’ university , and been a barrister in Samara . |
| 16 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 17 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 18 | The Isolde was Germaine Lubin — gracious , noble , the most wonderful Isolde I have ever encountered , better than any of those endless German cannons who have sung the role . |
| 19 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 20 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 21 | ESTEFANIA KNUTH was a resounding four shots better than any of the other returns with a 73 after a wet and windswept first qualifying day at the French Juniors Championship here last night . |
| 22 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 23 | Can Rawls ' principles be defended on the basis that they approximate complete neutrality better than any alternative ? |
| 24 | Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards . |
| 25 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 26 | This hunger is better than any other fullness ; this poverty better than any other wealth . |
| 27 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 28 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 29 | Better than any other instrument available to teachers , then or now , tests would cut through the unpredictable circumstances of a child 's cultural background to the relatively stable aptitudes on which education builds . |
| 30 | Although hurriedly completed for the presentation , it was felt that it embodies the Jaguar spirit better than any of the others . |