Example sentences of "that any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 2 | ‘ My Lords , Mr. Jeffreys sought to argue that any removal from the shelves of the supermarket , even if unaccompanied by label switching , was without more an appropriation . |
| 3 | Having said that any removal of the immunity by section 17 enured for the benefit not only of the person against whom the secondary action was taken but also for that of the employer who was party to the trade dispute , Lord Diplock held that the action by I.T.F. was not protected . |
| 4 | Although normally the courts will be reluctant to intervene in ‘ matters depending essentially on political judgment ’ , the prospect of challenge in the Divisional Court is one that any Minister exercising a statutory power , or any official advising on such a decision , is bound to keep in mind . |
| 5 | It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) . |
| 6 | There is no reason that any child of God should be a victim of their past . |
| 7 | The authors suggest that any child who achieves a score of less than 85 should be regarded as in need of further assessment and , possibly , structured intervention . |
| 8 | Lee recommends that any child who scores below 2 standard deviations from the standardised mean should be identified for further assessment , although no reason is given for this . |
| 9 | But there were those who remembered the cruel days of Aenarion 's court in Nagarythe and they doubted that any child who grew up there could be entirely wholesome . |
| 10 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 11 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a one in four chance that any child we have would suffer from the same condition . |
| 13 | Adherents of this principle could argue that any level of inequality across age groups could be tolerated as long as this was corrected over ‘ complete lives ’ . |
| 14 | Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost . |
| 15 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 16 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 17 | Once it was recognised that any kind of cancer had an identifiable cause , it was natural to try and determine the exact chemical identity of the substances responsible ( the ‘ carcinogens ’ ) . |
| 18 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 19 | It also means that any kind of thought not in tune with these imperatives is , by definition , unfashionable and will not prosper ; which just happens to suit our masters and mistresses very well indeed . |
| 20 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 22 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 23 | A guarantee had been made that any centre submitting all results by the end of a given month would have all candidates certificated by the end of the following month . |
| 24 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 25 | It is through the representation of the ruling class 's interests as the interests of the whole society that any threat to class power is contained ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 64 ) . |
| 26 | Brezhnev himself , addressing the Polish party congress in November 1968 , made it clear that any threat to the socialist order in a given country would be considered ‘ not only a problem of the people of the country in question , but a general problem and concern of all the socialist countries ’ . |
| 27 | He would persuade her that he loved her , ask her to promise to run away with him if her father refused his consent to their marriage , and , when he finally asked her father for her hand , threaten him with the prospect of his daughter 's elopement — he and Jared Tunstall both knew how self-willed his daughter was , and that any threat from her would not be idle . |
| 28 | The UKCC insists that any second level nurse seeking entry to a first level part of the register must successfully complete an examination of the same standard as that required for students undertaking a three year first level nursing preparation . |
| 29 | Gulliver , it was held that any profit made by a director as a result of the misuse of confidential information , which he had obtained by virtue of his position as an insider , was liable to account for that profit to the company . |
| 30 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |