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

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1 My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ .
2 They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 .
3 Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard .
4 His wife did n't want to watch him suffer , and she wanted him to die also , and she did n't want to see any suffering .
5 Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun .
6 The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense .
7 He did n't want to usurp any announcement by SCO ( see page one ) and was still talking in terms of how SCO might gracefully go to SVR4 and whether the companies ' two technologies might be blended .
8 They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime .
9 You did n't at that stage I do n't think make any sort of link towards referrals and introductions .
10 Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama .
11 Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction .
12 One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults .
13 Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward .
14 As a subsidiary question , can the US experience provide any lesson for post British Telecom privatization Britain ?
15 It could be and I do n't want to preempt any discussion that would take place , but it could be a solution er from the Hatfield site could be found in the same way as a solution was found by er Sunderland Council and er Cleveland County Council over the shipyards in er in Sunderland .
16 A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 .
17 Two of Queen Victoria 's night dresses failed to attract any interest when they came up for auction .
18 United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention .
19 The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford .
20 I mean has any body ever actually asked you that question before ?
21 Thus , it was suggested , Babangida was well placed to forestall any attempt within the security forces to hinder the progress of transition to a civilian , two-party system of government by 1992 .
22 PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians .
23 Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded .
24 ( As with the Hand thesis 91 , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) .
25 ( As with the Hand thesis , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) .
26 It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association .
27 However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population .
28 The term ‘ fuel pump ’ is intended to encompass any type of pump used to dispense fuel for use in vehicles .
29 It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face .
30 So it 's important to notice that in many species and certainly in ours , although males need not as you say make any contribution apart from their genes in principle , in fact males are heavy investors in offspring , albeit indirectly , so that must be important must n't it and that must
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