Example sentences of "[adv] any [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions .
2 Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators .
3 In view of this , I ca n't see the coroner bringing in any verdict of unlawful killing .
4 We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant .
5 Only one entry is allowed per form , but a competitor may send in any number of entries providing each entry is on an entry form from Parents magazine .
6 While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control .
7 ( 3 ) Even if the nature of these qualities of pleasure and pain are themselves unproblematic , it is said that what people want ( or want to avoid ) is not necessarily any kind of private experience , but just as often objective states of affairs in the public world , and it is thought no less reasonable to take account of wants of this sort than those for private experiences .
8 But Dave Hargreaves ( Chase Social ) was the only angler to put together any amount of bites .
9 But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young .
10 Is a period of living together any indication of how the marriage will fare ?
11 Even so , at £29.99 it does n't come cheap — try before you buy , and think very carefully before spending that much on a tool that 's only any use of driving and flight sims .
12 Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people .
13 Er , obviously any Ministry of Defence er er contract is a soft touch as regarded by the supplier .
14 What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be .
15 What sprang the trap in which they found themselves was not so much any actions of theirs , but the intense pressure which Henry applied .
16 Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally .
17 Round each calculation to the nearest 1p ( round down any amounts of ½p , i.e.
18 Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed .
19 Senior sources at the Palace were playing down any talk of it being a disaster , pointing to more sympathetic coverage in South Korean newspapers .
20 The reason for the affray is unclear , though a police spokesman played down any suggestion of feuding between criminal gangs .
21 She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take .
22 When you walk around or take any form of exercise , extra heat is produced inside your body , so any activity of this kind , no matter how leisurely , will contribute to keeping you warm .
23 Sadly , she never carries cash , so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded .
24 So any course of antibiotics is likely to benefit the yeasts in the gut at the expense of the bacteria .
25 It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous .
26 So any shortage of places will be likely to hit them hardest .
27 However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time .
28 ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’
29 For a physicalist , a mode of access is just a physical process , so any mode of access V enjoys should , if physicalism be true , be available to BS .
30 They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account .
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