Example sentences of "any [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any contestant who , in the referee 's opinion , becomes so over-excited that he loses self control may be disqualified from the entire tournament . |
| 2 | Guy knew it would make hard riding easier , but any noise they made would no longer be muffled by the downpour . |
| 3 | Any noise it made was lost in the wind . |
| 4 | when there 's any recession they 're the first ones to lose |
| 5 | Regulations made under this section must not delegate to one or more members of the licensing board , or to officials or other persons , except as authorised by the Act , any responsibility which must be exercised by the licensing board at any of their meetings . |
| 6 | The complement of Gould s last comment is likewise true : any scientist who claimed that the Neanderthals were dark-skinned would clearly be committing an act of intellectual folly . |
| 7 | There is no question that any scientist who ‘ goes public ’ today will find his life transformed for the worse . |
| 8 | Any scientist who modifies the hard core has opted out of that particular research programme . |
| 9 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 10 | Any Christian who is in touch with thinking people out . |
| 11 | This proved in itself a major revolution , not only for the liturgy , but also for clerical life , even if the initial rather clumsy practice of massive concelebration by all priests present at any Mass itself expressed over-forcibly a clergy-laity divide and has later tended to give way — except for certain symbolic occasions ( e.g. of a bishop meeting with his diocesan clergy ) — to a pattern in which most supernumerary priests at a given Mass simply join with the lay congregation . |
| 12 | They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure : ‘ They get up at any hour they choose , and go out and amuse themselves . ’ |
| 13 | She realized that if she chose she could go all day without food and go to bed at any hour she liked . |
| 14 | Any change they brought would not be for the good . |
| 15 | that early intervention is the best way of coping with it , and certainly it demands that parents and friends and teachers , and people concerned are aware of any change which is sustained over a period because by early intervention then you 're probably coping with the problem rather than the eating disorder , because the problem is there before the eating disorder . |
| 16 | True to his dislike of sudden change ( or , indeed , of any change which implied modernization ) Franco altered the direction of his economic and foreign policies only cautiously . |
| 17 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 18 | It also encouraged them to resist any change whatever in local institutions or in elections for community representation , except with the specific approval of the Jordanian government and the PLO itself . |
| 19 | Er , but any change you make to a computer system , is likely to introduce bugs into the system , so that it does n't give the right answers any more . |
| 20 | The young man was claimed to be ‘ abundantly capable of the office ’ , but if he had any experience which might justify his placement in a supervisory post , it was not mentioned . |
| 21 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 22 | The patient is conscious and can even report to the surgeon any experience he or she may be having as the operation progresses . |
| 23 | Considering the links between mathematical development and language should be an important aspect of any curriculum which recognises our multicultural society . |
| 24 | But any hope he might have had of sliding his arm round her and trying a tentative first kiss on the drive home was scotched when she fell asleep the moment she got into the car . |
| 25 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 26 | Those in the know — the core group of researchers in any field who spend a lot of time at conferences and seminars chatting about the state of the art — will simply disregard the anomalous result , or they will have gossiped it away in the bar after the meeting . |
| 27 | Curiously , perhaps the only advice to be given is : cultivate it in any field you like , in sport , in dancing , in singing , in telling dirty stories , and what you learn there will mysteriously invade any other field in which timing is important , unless some mental block prevents it . |
| 28 | Shops offer a variety of sail sizes with any board you choose and sail size can be critical to success in the early stages . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ it turns out that Mishkin does n't actually have any money himself . |
| 30 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |