Example sentences of "[v-ing] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. W. Hastings , who was present , went much further in his hostility to male printers and thought it would be a positive " advantage if wages were lowered in the printing trade " , referring to the London union ( the London Society of Compositors ) as " one of the most powerful and most structured trade unions in London " , which , unjustifiably in his view , " prevented any printer employing any compositor at less than 33s a week " . |
| 2 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 3 | We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds . |
| 4 | any person driving any motor car described in the Schedule on the order or with the permission of the Policyholder |
| 5 | DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE Bill Clinton wants to be President of the world 's only superpower — a nation capable of swatting any other off the globe at the push of a button . |
| 6 | This court is in no way prejudging any defence of justification which may hereafter be raised in those libel proceedings . |
| 7 | SCSI and Ethernet devices are integrated closely into the system , enabling any processor within the system to be attached to a SCSI or Ethernet controller . |
| 8 | SCSI and ethernet devices are closely integrated into the system enabling any processor within the system to be attached to a SCSI or ethernet controller . |
| 9 | If the intensification of use could be regarded as a material change of use , then planning permission would be required thus enabling any odour emission to be controlled by planning legislation . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing in this Act shall be construed as enabling any court to make an order that is binding on the Crown or on any person in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown . |
| 11 | My language awareness course is intended to obviate the need for it by enabling any teacher to learn alongside the pupils . |
| 12 | and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult |
| 13 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 14 | Iran took part in the summits of the Non-Aligned in 1979 and 1983 , and the new Iranian constitution defined the basis of the country 's foreign policy inter alia as ‘ ending any kind of domination , … practicing non-alignment with respect to the dominating powers and maintaining mutual peaceful relationships with non-belligerent nations ’ . |
| 15 | ( This rate will be applied when difficulty is experienced in agreeing measured rates , for example time spent unloading materials , adjusting scaffolding for use by other trades and reinstating any work damaged by others . ) |
| 16 | It has been suggested that the processing of gastrin in duodenal ulcer patients may be altered and that aberrent forms of gastrin that are immunoreactive but not bioactive may circulate , thus obscuring any correlation between gastrin and gastric acid secretion . |
| 17 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 18 | You are damaging the Labour Party , you are jeopardizing any opposition to this , this present Government , you 're jeopardizing the future survival of the Labour Party . |
| 19 | It was unnaturally neat , and it carefully refrained from revealing any signs of individuality . |
| 20 | Under this scheme , voters can be penalised for failing to list tall lesbians , Egyptian cross-dressers , and short-sighted window-cleaners in the correct order of preference — although , in order to avoid discrimination , election literature is prohibited from revealing any details at all about candidates , including their names . |
| 21 | On the first occasion a violent thunderstorm blew up on that beautiful summer day , wrecking any attempt at further recording and causing damage to the equipment . |
| 22 | The user should respond by pressing any key when prompted to do so by the word Key ? |
| 23 | Respond by pressing any key . |
| 24 | It is too easy for a villain to con his way into an entrance hall by pressing any bell and claiming to be a delivery man . |
| 25 | If you have a push-button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1–78 . |
| 26 | If you have a push-button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1–78 . |
| 27 | If you have a push button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1-78 . |
| 28 | As a result of this curse , she set about devouring any children she came across , in perverse vengeance for having lost her own . |
| 29 | He must also take such steps as are necessary for protecting any property of the estate but is not under an obligation to do anything which would involve him in expense ( s 287(3) ) . |
| 30 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , despite recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |