Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) .
2 But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group .
3 If it detects any sudden absence of juice , it automatically kicks in with its battery , allowing you to shut down gracefully with no loss of data .
4 Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections .
5 He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject .
6 It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press !
7 It may also be prudent to advise the client that the standard terms may not be suitable for all transactions and that , if it has any regular business partners , or long-term contracts , it may be better to have a specially negotiated contract for that customer/transaction .
8 On the other hand there may be publications on your media list which will be interested in showing the packaging , particularly if it has any unusual features or uses new techniques .
9 Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts .
10 Tomas Tierney , a local teacher , and PRO for the group , said it was founded to enable local residents to block the proposal if it presented any environmental dangers .
11 Because it lacks any tangible goals for the delivery and outcome of health care , it remains vulnerable to accusations of crude cost-curbing .
12 That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph .
13 Newco should consider whether it requires any continuing services to be provided by the vendor .
14 Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments .
15 Scientists at British Biotechnology in Oxford are pinning their hopes on this second stage of trials of P24 VLP ; the Aids drug has come through first stage trials in London aimed at finding out whether it has any adverse effects .
16 In very general terms , Marxist theorists look for the location of power in the wider social and economic structure of society There is continuing debate within Marxism over the exact role that the state ( or political level ) fulfils and whether it has any significant independence from the requirements of the owners of the means of production and the preservation of the system of capital accumulation In the long term , however , Marxists argue that the scope for human beings to choose freely and to shape their society as they wish is severely circumscribed by the private ownership of the means of production , the necessity of the state to respond to the crises and problems generated by capitalism as an economic system and the inequality of competition between different ideologies Elite theories do not go so far in limiting the scope for individuals to choose or to shape their societies They argue that individuals can choose , subjectively , to join , to maintain or to challenge the structure of power which exists .
17 Noting the slow take up of the high-end RIO , Specialix says RIO was ‘ over engineered ’ and brought to the market before its time , saying it will have to wait until multi-processing technology takes off before it sees any real installations .
18 Above : The Scissortail is very popular even though it lacks any bright colouring .
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