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

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1 Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted .
2 Subject to such disclosure as is required by Section 317 of the Act , a Director may vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is interested or upon any matter arising out of the same and may be counted in the quorum present at any meeting at which any such contract , arrangement or matter is proposed or considered and if he shall so vote his vote shall be counted .
3 Similarly ( b ) alone may not be sufficient as the courts have laid down principles which effectively restrict the time for which any such covenant can run and also the geographical area it can cover .
4 In a word , governments have made themselves unpopular with their manifold ‘ failures ’ , those failures are traceable to their basic failure to restructure the social relations of British capitalism , and yet there has been no social force with the ‘ will ’ and capacity to enforce any radical restructuring against the opposition which any such move must encounter .
5 Any general strategy for achieving this would be tentative ; a pragmatist judge would stand ready to revise his practice by enlarging or contracting the scope of what he counts as legal rights as experience improved the intricate calculations on which any such strategy would depend .
6 More importantly , Soviet diplomats have by and large restrained from trying to cultivate political ties with groups considered unacceptable to the government in question and , when accused of doing so , have apologised and made every effort to smooth over the situation , in dramatic contrast to the vehement denials and abusive tirades which any such allegation elicited in the 1930s .
7 Nor , on the evidence of a rather poor run of West Saxon charters was there any such restriction on the power of the West Saxon king to do so .
8 For on nearly every American campus there is an atelier in the shape of a ‘ Creative Writing programme ’ , whereas on no British campus is there any such thing , and indeed the British scoff at the mere possibility — on precisely the grounds that Newbolt here puts forward .
9 We can be well aware in the abstract of the horror , misery and emptiness of much of life , but is there any such thing as an intense imaginative vision of life , however pessimistic , which is not in some sense pleasing ?
10 Give me my morning 's gentle stroll down to the corner paper shop , my afternoon 's lazy snooker match at the village club with a glass of you know what on the side-table , and my evening 's friendly ( is there any such thing ? ) solo or bridge games .
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