Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At the moment there are no plans for them to do any more work on the building . |
2 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |
3 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
4 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |
5 | I have not yet concluded the exploration , and I think that it would be a mistake for me to make any premature statement about our next intentions , but I shall keep the House informed . |
6 | As far as I am concerned , it is just not necessary for me to play any more Sibelius in London . |
7 | As I am not a member of his Church , it would be improper of me to make any theological observations . |
8 | The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom , but none of them produced any significant progress . |
9 | They clung to each other almost fearfully as though they believed that , in the whole of this alien and bewildering world , only the two of them had any real substance ; as if all else was an illusion . |
10 | The press may have labelled them all Brats , but not all of them had any great desire to raise hell and make headlines . |
11 | While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning . |
12 | None of them had any particular wish to be abroad after dark . |
13 | Lionfish have venom glands at the base of the dorsal fine spines and the sting can prove very serious and excruciatingly painful although there is no record of it causing any human fatalities |
14 | Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ? |
15 | I suppose you could say we sort of adopted each other , as neither of us had any real brothers and sisters . |
16 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
17 | None of us needs any particular other any more , so acquaintance is a whim , flowering or dying with the moment . |
18 | She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings . |
19 | Normally , the Inland Revenue would require you to meet with them to discuss any potential tax liabilities on an individual basis , and could also possibly require the completion of annual tax returns . |
20 | Ridley said that the Director of Public Prosecutions had now withdrawn his earlier objections to such a publication , but it would not be in the public interest for him to take any further action on the matter . |
21 | I hope André does n't see this as a welcome mat for him to make any more advances . |
22 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
23 | Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children . |
24 | It also comes naturally to them to include any musical form with a sharp sense of its own absurdity ; ska , for instance ( there are touches of Madness here ) or a hyperactive brand of rhythm and blues ( they become almost a French Blues Brothers on Marcelle Ratafia ) . |
25 | All information held by or reasonably available to you regarding any potential hazards known or believed to exist in the transport handling or use of the goods supplied shall be promptly communicated to us prior to delivery . |
26 | The regression alone will probably have raised enough points for the patient to consider during the ensuing period without him having any other work to do . |
27 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
28 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
29 | In our economy , where we are so familiar with money , it is difficult for us to envisage any other ways in which goods can be acquired , but in the past all sorts of mechanisms were employed and the same is true in the Third World today . |