Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 2 | With all he 'd got going for him , was it any wonder that she should find him more — um — interesting than any man she had ever met ? |
| 3 | In the centre , taller and broader than any man there , his greying head bare , stood Siward their leader , Kalv 's nephew . |
| 4 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 5 | Ten hours of scouring had left the thirty-yard circle cleaner than any piece of ground in England . |
| 6 | Much more entertaining than any guide is the dyspeptic company of Maurice Hewlett 's , The Road In Tuscany ( 1906 ) which finds in Montepulciano ‘ much to make the judicious grieve … the Piazza a barrack square , the belfry a maimed stump ’ and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm probably more open-minded than any manager in the League . ’ |
| 8 | A donatio mortis causa of land is neither more nor less anomalous than any other . |
| 9 | I 've , I 've got a little knife , I do n't know where I got it from , on it , on it , it says steel and it 's all broken the blade because , you know , it 's been used so much and it 's sharper for even being broken than any thing else I 've got . |
| 10 | Keep doing this until any pain subsides , then cover the affected area and see your doctor . |
| 11 | That includes workstations configured with VMS and Open VMS as well as Unix — few if any Alpha models would have been included in the figures . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm only interested if any aspect of Anglam still lives on . ’ |
| 13 | As I have indicated in the preceding chapter , this theory is not in fact consistent with all known research ( it is doubtful if any theory could be that ) nor is it free of speculation . |
| 14 | In 1636 Mersenne made a series of tests on wires of different materials but it is doubtful if any use was made of the information . |
| 15 | Whether this provided any dating evidence I can not remember , but at the bottom of this deposit was an earlier pavement which proved to be of much greater interest , as it was a most unusual pattern of a scroll of trumpet-shaped leaves . |
| 16 | I am not free while any woman is unfree , even when her shackles are very different from my own . |
| 17 | As the baggage section is now optional on the IT policy Branches should check this before any claim is paid as the claim may need to be directed to a Home Insurer . |
| 18 | It is doubtful whether any system could succeed in these contradictory aims . |
| 19 | It is doubtful whether any organisation approaches to either of these extremes . |
| 20 | It is doubtful whether any organisation approaches to either of these extremes . |
| 21 | Despite these efforts John Lauder was doubtful whether any kind of advertising boosted sales . |
| 22 | It is doubtful whether any Government could have surmounted the world slump in trade and the financial crisis of 1931 ; but MacDonald 's was memorably inept . |
| 23 | Thus , in the southern United States after the Civil War , ‘ experience has shown that it is doubtful whether any profit can accrue to a cultivator whose annual crop is less than fifty bales … |
| 24 | Your heart is as sound as any heart , as a healthy young man 's heart , as a new-born heart , Miss Thorne . |
| 25 | The bread that comes out is as French as any boulangerie could bake it . |
| 26 | The sea is as crystal clear as any spot in the Caribbean you might care to name . |
| 27 | They may make use of the brevity of Latin tags , just as pithy as any adman 's lingo . |
| 28 | Now these words are as clear and unequivocal as any draftsman could reasonably make them and they can not , as a matter of ordinary English , relate to the intention of anyone other than the holder . |
| 29 | I have seen schools where children drew and made clay models , gathered and displayed local crafts collected , made and used local musical instruments — and schools as bare and empty as any prison cell . |
| 30 | Given his assumptions , they may be as scientific as any discussion of such distant times and places can be — though hardly compelling . |