Example sentences of "to [pron] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 2 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 3 | ‘ Now is your opportunity to put to me any questions you have on the detailed implications for the people of the World of the Council 's decisions . ’ |
| 4 | I had no magic that could open to me any one of those dark doors , lighted windows . |
| 5 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 6 | Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’ |
| 7 | Life here is very beautiful , to me any life is preferable to death . |
| 8 | ‘ My life does not belong to me any more , Miss Everdene , but to you . |
| 9 | But if anything had happened to me any of her husbands could . |
| 10 | Do n't talk to me any more then ! |
| 11 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 12 | The Reporter would be the first person to whom any child referrals would be made . |
| 13 | That is the last recourse to which any politician comes . |
| 14 | Such a comment was not one , of course , to which any patriotically-minded Englishman could give heed . |
| 15 | In order to ascertain the rights to which any given set of facts give rise , we must always ask what is the rule of Common Law ? what difference ( if any ) is made in the working of this rule by the existence of some rule of Equity applying to the case ? |
| 16 | It was not a matter to which any of them had ever given great thought . |
| 17 | In the background , beyond the executive structure , will be the library committee — to which any particular problems may be put . |
| 18 | If we wanted to summarize the extent to which any type of school selected disproportionately from the children of particular class backgrounds , we might use the difference between the service and the working class in the proportion attending that school . |
| 19 | In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’ |
| 20 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |
| 21 | Although these facts were not matters to which any great weight could be attached , they were relevant . |
| 22 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 23 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 24 | It will also be necessary to consider the extent to which the evidence involves technical data and the extent to which any particular parent is likely to find this kind of information helpful . |
| 25 | As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) . |
| 26 | This is the court to which any and every politician hoping to influence the California legislature must come and pay his respects . |
| 27 | Under the English Rules of the Supreme Court ( and comparable rules of court in other Commonwealth jurisdictions ) , the court may make an order for the ‘ detention , custody or presentation ’ of any property which is the subject-matter of a cause or matter before the court or as to which any question may arise in the case ; and may order the inspection of any such property in the possession of a party . |
| 28 | Because of this wide range , most computer designs are not tied to the details of individual devices , but provide generalized transput control features and instructions , to which any selected input , output , or backing storage device may be interfaced . |
| 29 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 30 | An assessment framework is a structure to which any test item can be related . |