Example sentences of "[vb past] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco reacted in this way not because Yagüe 's attitude posed any real threat to his position , but because it represented indiscipline . |
| 2 | It was not that he posed any real threat ( although he was discussing collaboration with moderate socialist exiles ) . |
| 3 | The US army denied that radiation from the munitions posed any widespread hazards . |
| 4 | And it never wandered any more after that it was seen enough of the big bad world outside . |
| 5 | No one pretended any such thing . |
| 6 | It was hidden away down a dingy little cul-de-sac ending in a railway embankment and a station hardly anyone used any more . |
| 7 | Had you broken them in properly or carefully plastered any sore areas beforehand ? |
| 8 | There is no evidence that such goods moved any great distance from their place of:manufacture and no reason why this should be necessary . |
| 9 | She stroked any possible offence from the air in a good imitation of worldliness . |
| 10 | Her throat would never produce a sound again if she shouted any louder . |
| 11 | Baker restated on Oct. 16 the US position that no settlement would be acceptable which involved any Iraqi material gain from its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait . |
| 12 | Yet the capital 's merchants were made particularly conscious of their dependence upon government favour and contracts , and this inhibited any coherent assertion of non-noble interests . |
| 13 | The oil crisis and following economic recession of the 1970s reinforced any protectionist tendencies of the individual member states and it was not until the early 1980s that the political will developed to re-focus the creation of a single market . |
| 14 | Only one found any significant difference between heparin and no-heparin groups in coronary patency , and even that small increase was not associated with any significant improvement in enzymatic infarct size or recurrent ischaemic episodes . |
| 15 | Neither development officer found any marked degree of antipathy or anxiety about the project at this stage . |
| 16 | For the first decade in which hydrogels were used as biomaterials , it was only poly ( 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate ) — polyHEMA — that found any widespread application , whereas in the eye a relatively wide variety of compounds were examined . |
| 17 | I never found any hula girls . |
| 18 | A few weeks later I noticed that the anemone crab had disappeared and as more time went by , my fish stock began to decrease , although I never found any dead fish in the tank . |
| 19 | He had seen her fall with his own eyes but he doubted any other witness would have disagreed with the description . |
| 20 | No side reported any specific progress , although the Israeli and Lebanese sides reported constructive dialogue , and Israel reportedly offered to sign a peace treaty with Lebanon . |
| 21 | After 300 miles none of our testers reported any discernible wear or compression in either the midsole or the outsole , although one did report a slight separation of the midsole from the outsole around the heel . |
| 22 | He dismissed any such link for lack of proof ; for him there was ‘ no tracing the connection of ancient nations , but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost , because languages are the pedigree of nations . |
| 23 | He dismissed any previous misgivings because all at once he felt protective towards the girl on the couch . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Wörner , in a clear reference on May 29 to Norway , Turkey and Iceland , which were not members of the European Community ( EC ) , warned that it would be " unacceptable " if new European defence arrangements excluded any European member of the NATO alliance . |
| 25 | The organization 's North Atlantic Council , however , holding a special meeting at foreign ministerial level in Brussels on Aug. 10 , excluded any military co-ordination under NATO 's integrated military structures , for any hostilities outside NATO 's specific geographical area . |
| 26 | Accordingly , Barth regarded any theological concern with created and fallen nature apart from its re-creation in Jesus Christ as quite superfluous . |
| 27 | I felt uneasy and depressed and tried to cheer myself up shopping , but there was nothing I wanted and I caught any early train home . |
| 28 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 29 | Having made such a set at London and subdued any important resistance on the continent the Germans turned their attention to the total destruction of Britain . |
| 30 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |