Example sentences of "it be [adj] [to-vb] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , no security is one hundred per cent , it 's impossible to make any area completely secure , but it 's as tight as it possibly can be and I 'm quite happy with the security at the present time .
2 It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map .
3 I also went on to say that while that policy would be continued , the council always had and always would reserve it 's right to challenge any decision that it believed was legally flawed .
4 With no traffic connections it 's hard to reach any spot in the town except on foot , which is very dangerous .
5 It 's difficult to see any light at the end of the tunnel , ’ says Crossman .
6 I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money .
7 When you have got the needle in , it 's a battle to get the syringe on , and then it 's difficult to get any blood out of him because he 's so tense . ’
8 However , if it is appropriate to make any sort of residence order , under section 11(7) : ‘ A section 8 order [ which includes a residence order ] may — ( a ) contain directions about how it is to be carried into effect ; …
9 Even so , barbel hooked in open water can tax tackle to the limit and it is foolhardy to take any chances with them .
10 Under the Protection of Children ( Tobacco ) Act of 1986 it is illegal to sell any tobacco product to anyone below the age of 16 .
11 It is impractical to expect any party to draw trouble on himself by notifying the other of a potential claim .
12 In these circumstances it is impossible to detect any element of injustice to M. and accordingly we indicated at the conclusion of the argument that his appeal would be dismissed .
13 According to Cumont , despite the theological differences between the Vedas and the Avesta , ‘ the Vedic Mitra and the Iranian Mithra have preserved so many traits of resemblance that it is impossible to entertain any doubt concerning their common origin' .
14 It is a kind of given , something of which we do have direct acquaintance , but it is impossible to give any analysis of it .
15 On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period .
16 The Reverend Peter Green warned in How to Deal with Lads ( 1911 ) of how ‘ the club is rushed by a swarm of rough lads whom you do n't know and over whom it is impossible to exercise any control ’ .
17 And Hume 's point is that it is impossible to have any reason for that last belief .
18 Given this dislocation between the benefit which is assessable to tax and the basis on which its value is to be assessed it is impossible to gain any guidance in the statute as to the Parliamentary intention .
19 Despite the extensive sampling during the excavation of the sixth and seventh century settlement at Cowdery 's Down the results prompted the excavator to offer a warning about interpreting the results ; it was concluded that ‘ it is impossible to make any assertions about the economy or waste disposal systems associated with the site ’ ( Green 1983 , p. 261 ) .
20 In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong .
21 The relational algebra is also relationally complete , that is , it is possible to perform any data manipulation on the relations required by the user using one or more of the relational algebra operators .
22 An upper Hessenberg matrix has only zeros below its infradiagonal ; and it is possible to transform any matrix A to this form by a similar transformation .
23 It is possible to analyse any text in terms of it .
24 All the calculations carried out so far have assumed that it is possible to allocate any number of records to a given address .
25 This raises the question of whether it is possible to make any distinction between black holes , beyond differences in mass .
26 Although these people will normally be leading/managing other contractors , not regular employees , it is unusual to find any agency secretarial/office staff who have a supervisory function .
27 In the female it is important to treat any cause of vaginal discharge .
28 Resolved , That , for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Coal Industry Bill , it is expedient to authorise any increase in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament which is attributable to —
29 It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it .
30 Despite the evidence put forward by Soviet historians to assert a Marxist tradition in Latin America antedating the Russian revolution , it is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that Marxism as a basis for worker organisation became a significant force in the region , with few exceptions , in the wake of the Bolshevik triumph .
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