Example sentences of "[conj] in any [noun] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we could say that in any marriage it is important for both partners to be able to contain and at times to say ‘ enough is enough ’ . |
| 2 | There is never the feeling that in any way she is exploiting her position for her own good . |
| 3 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 4 | Does the Prime Minister agree that we do not want the militarisation of space , and that in any case it is not needed ? |
| 5 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 6 | Whereupon he made a further defensive remark that in any event it was now too late to effect any alterations . |
| 7 | Underneath one of the porticos is a memorial plaque that bemoans the fact that in any dispute it is only ever the lawyers who grow fat ! |
| 8 | So if in any way you 're different , if you 're black or if you 're short or if in any way you 're different , you 're fair game for the bullies perhaps ? |
| 9 | So if in any way you 're different , if you 're black or if you 're short or if in any way you 're different , you 're fair game for the bullies perhaps ? |
| 10 | A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward . |
| 11 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 12 | ‘ And in any case we are related . ’ |
| 13 | Already his fingers were itching for a pencil , though he was n't allowed to draw yet , and in any case he was n't well enough . |
| 14 | He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married . |
| 15 | Her ‘ usual stuff ’ had built them both a fabulous reputation and in any case he was n't too sure how she would take such a phrase . |
| 16 | And in any case I am so angry — I have never been so angry ! — I am prepared to commit suicide if it would mean the end of your career ! |
| 17 | Jeremy is coming with me but he is too young to do this alone , and in any case I 'm the only one who can deploy O'Brien . ’ |
| 18 | He seemed to have changed his mind with suspicious ease , and in any case she was not at all used to this kind of treatment . |
| 19 | Maggie 's outrage at this callous remark was somewhat offset by the fact that he had rescued her , and in any case she was moving off to Ana who was sitting looking very shaky . |
| 20 | Workwise , the day was already a write-off and in any case she was eager to know what the girl had to say . |
| 21 | In a letter to Arthur Greeves , he said that Warnie and Mrs Moore liked each other , ‘ and , I hope , as W. gets broken into domestic life , they may come to do so still more : but in the interval mere is a ticklish time ahead and in any case it is a big sacrifice of our … |
| 22 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 23 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 24 | Further , the repeated searching and worrying is intolerable and utterly destructive of normal family life and in any case it is not helpful in either preventing or in treating addictive disease . |
| 25 | Hatred of Jews is something that the Fascist is especially prone to , but it is n't a necessary consequence of his Fascism , and in any case it 's only a symptom , certainly not the root cause of his disease . |
| 26 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 27 | This concept , ‘ state socialism ’ , was however not properly socialist , and in any case it was inappropriate to modern conditions . |
| 28 | It was unlikely , because there were numerous Telfords in the phone book , and in any case it was something she 'd have to risk . |
| 29 | With his hand cool and firm on the back of her neck holding her head in place , she could hardly refuse , and in any case it was sensible advice . |
| 30 | Consenting to have one 's mail opened by another , to be visited without prior arrangement , and to have another arrange aspects of one 's plans or activities without prior consultation ( e.g. accepting invitations in one 's name ) may or may not be justified by their instrumental value , but in any case they are taken in our culture as expressing the existence of certain attitudes , as in part constituting those attitudes . |