Example sentences of "have any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things .
2 Almost everyone in Britain and the United States who has any acquaintance with law believes that Parliament and Congress and the various state legislatures make law and that past judicial decisions must be given credit in later ones .
3 Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside .
4 It is necessary before undertaking an analysis of whether a restraint in a particular case is reasonable to decide whether in the first place the doctrine has any part to play .
5 He warned the exact arrangement announced yesterday will have to remain unchanged if Diana has any possibility of becoming queen .
6 For the Autumn 1955 issue , Mary Short of Norwich wrote an article entitled ‘ Compel them to Come in ’ predicting that the WEA would die a natural death unless more young members were recruited and advocating adventurous experiment : ‘ it may mean holding afternoon classes , or running a baby-sitter service so that young couples with children can come … has any Branch tried to recruit new members by advertising courses on child psychology at ante-natal clinics and infant welfare centres ? ’ .
7 If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences .
8 If he has any choice , the Profitboss will share a simple lunch with his customers .
9 I know that none of us has any choice about what we eat ; it 's all down to drainage , and some systems are obviously better than others .
10 But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats .
11 In many practical cases the program will be deterministic , in that it can not diverge and never has any choice over what to communicate or what to assign to its free variables .
12 The four cardinal metaphors are the four foundations of physical science ( space , time , matter and number ) ; none of which has any objective , external status , rather they are ‘ creations of the mind ’ .
13 You know , not one that he has any hassle in getting .
14 I attach great importance to these observations because there is a fashion now in the humanities to deny that the old notion of human nature still has any utility .
15 It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’
16 Where it will differ is if anybody has any service before the thirtieth of September nineteen fifty six for that part of the lump sum the calculation is based on erm is based on a sorry oh one thirtieth of each year .
17 One almost has to wonder if this account has any element of truth to it or if it was some public relations yarn to spur interest in the film .
18 ‘ Not if he has any sense . ’
19 If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack .
20 If the character has any sense , he will realize that being out in a lightning storm carrying a chunk of metal is n't a good idea , and drop it to his associates on the ground , turn ethereal , or take some other steps to ensure his safety .
21 Unfortunately , if the enemy has any sense , he will know this .
22 And no-one I know has any sense of ‘ the family ’ .
23 This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense .
24 Indeed , if this metaprogram view has any substance to it then it follows that the true potential of hypertext will only be apparent when computer scientists have discovered much more about the fundamental nature of programs and programming .
25 If this argument has any substance , it lies in the fact that service on an involuntary agent attracts no legal as opposed to practical requirement that there be any supplemental transmission of information to the defendant abroad , whereas supplemental transmission of the actual documents served is required to be effected by the huissier initiating notification au parquet and by a Secretary of State on whom documents are served under the similar United States practice .
26 In my judgment it is proper for documents to be specified by class in a section 39 notice , and none of the other objections put forward has any substance .
27 Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own .
28 The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value .
29 Again , I do n't know if this has any bearing on the murder of Paul Gray , but it does seem to me to be a part of the general atmosphere of corruption and decay . ’
30 That is , if a creature 's phenomenology has any dimension comparable to visual experience as we know it , we can intelligibly ask whether ( and when ) distinctions such as these are perceived by it .
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