Example sentences of "the [noun] [modal v] [verb] at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ATNs represent the grammar as a set of networks displaying the possible orderings of constituents in a grammar and the various options that the parser will have at any stage in the processing . |
| 2 | The condition can occur at any age . |
| 3 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 4 | He looked down at the child , surprised , as if the boy would vanish at any moment , leaving him holding nothing . |
| 5 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 6 | Consequently , without having to decide whether the right of registration is a retained power or whether the Community could legislate at any time in that field , it must be held that in exercising that competence the member states must comply with the general rules of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | The essence of presidential power was its unpredictability : the General could intervene at any moment and on any issue . |
| 8 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 9 | The landlord can opt at any time without consulting the tenant . |
| 10 | The reality of AIDS is that the person can die at any time . |
| 11 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 12 | The room was unnaturally still about her , but the stillness might shatter at any second . |
| 13 | Where the debtor accepts an offer made to him , a special notification of the right to cancel must be given to him and the debtor can cancel at any time up to five days from receipt of that notification ( s68(a) ) . |
| 14 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 15 | The episodes can happen at any time and nurses at the Countess of Chester Hospital , where she is a patient , have a matter of minutes to resuscitate Leah through a tube inserted into her neck . |
| 16 | This is a common type of dialogue box containing more information than the box can display at any one time . |
| 17 | The police could arrive at any minute ! |
| 18 | The world might end at any moment ; the illustrations of ninth-century Apocalypses are charged with innovation and nervous energy . |
| 19 | The ethics of bargaining are debatable ; there is scope for unjustifiable coercion ; and equal treatment as between applicants can be abandoned in favour of charging what the market will bear at any particular time . |