Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] any [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 2 | But this does not mean , apparently , the active negotiation of meaning , the realization of speech acts , discourse enactment , social interaction , or indeed any aspect of language use which those who have been concerned with communicative approaches to language teaching have found it necessary to invoke . |
| 3 | Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law . |
| 4 | It was not a tent , nor indeed any sort of camping equipment . |
| 5 | It was up to her to get herself and the twins out of here , back to the safety of their apartment — and clearly any display of outrage or temperament was only going to delay matters . |
| 6 | If there are two kinds of small molecule in the chain , the two can be thought of as 1 and 0 respectively , and immediately any amount of information , of any kind , can be stored , provided only that the chain is long enough . |
| 7 | The printer has several advantages over conventional printers ; it is almost silent , the printhead is very light and so powerful motors are not needed and almost any kind of paper can be used . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 9 | Climate and diet have a considerable effect upon maturation , as for example the work of Weiner & Thambipillai ( 1952 ) on West Africa children suggests , and therefore any estimates of life-expectancy in earlier populations must be accepted with reserve . |
| 10 | It is an extraordinary account , but then any vision of life at the end of the universe is bound to be . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal had ruled that whether or not such material might be ‘ beneficial to those who were sexually repressed or perverted or deviant ’ did not make its publication ‘ an object of general concern ’ , since otherwise any form of pornography could be defended on the ground that it was beneficial to some people , if not to the public at large . |