Example sentences of "[vb pp] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defense officials say they have not yet forbidden any publication , but insist that they possess the power to do so if they choose . |
| 2 | ( iii ) been a director or member of or a beneficial owner of any share in a recognised body which directly or indirectly owned any share in another recognised body which held or received clients ' money ; |
| 3 | Although Wilfrid did evangelise Mercia and founded a site at Oundle in Northamptonshire , it is probable the reference is to another Stamford , as the name was not uncommon and Alchfrith is unlikely to have owned any land in this area . |
| 4 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 5 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 6 | Officers have recommended any development on the land , which is in the Sadberge conservation area , should make a ‘ positive contribution ’ to the village character . |
| 7 | Whether it was the Vietminh , the Binh Xuyen , or , most likely , Trotskyists , who were responsible , it obviously shattered any confidence that the restoration of French power could be achieved without such savage resistance . |
| 8 | He assured me he had n't mentioned the glass to anyone , had n't dropped any hints . |
| 9 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 10 | The police had dropped any action , following their March 1967 raid , by June . |
| 11 | There was nowhere to park the car , and that solved any uncertainty about how to handle the parting ; before she slid out she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek like a schoolyard dare , and was gone before there could be any reaction . |
| 12 | ‘ We think we have solved any quality problems , ’ says Racal Vodafone managing director Chris Gent . |
| 13 | Only three per cent reported any difficulty . |
| 14 | Alan Hazlewood , of the Ipswich and Suffolk Chamber , warned strikers that they were threatening working people 's jobs , while Jim Wellerd , his counterpart in North and Mid Essex , said member firms had not reported any difficulties . |
| 15 | Furthermore , local farmers had not reported any stock losses since the 1989 sightings . |
| 16 | Indeed I am not aware that MoD has yet reported any doses . |
| 17 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 18 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 19 | yes , but I was gon na say er , he would n't of come any way in the fog |
| 20 | But General Milan Gvero , deputy commander of the Bosnian Serb forces , has attacked any plan for an airdrop warning it would lead to ‘ the massive use of military force ’ and escalation of war . |
| 21 | Such was the anticipation of a boy that the couple had n't considered any girls ' names . |
| 22 | As in the 1977 NOP survey , our 1979 survey showed that very few people buying on credit had considered any type of credit other than the one they had actually used . |
| 23 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 24 | The idea of doing research and pursuing an academic career was common ground to both of them ; indeed they had never considered any alternative . |
| 25 | Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I can see no reason why I should n't keep my job because I have not committed any offence under military law , ’ he said at the time . |
| 27 | But by the leave of all here , I challenge your view , Father Abbot , that he has committed any offence touching the removal of Saint Winifred 's reliquary . |
| 28 | He strenuously denied having committed any offence , however , and the government eventually decided that there was insufficient evidence to indict him on espionage charges . |
| 29 | Moreover , to claim that in allowing the patient to die , the doctor acted lawfully , because he omitted to do anything , rather than committed any act , is to overlook the obvious point that , depending on the particular circumstances , it may be the doctor 's duty to act , so that his failure to act by allowing death constituted a breach of duty . |
| 30 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |