Example sentences of "[adv] to any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it will certainly not be down to any shortage of hard work or effort beforehand . ’ |
| 2 | There was a definite thumbs down to any reorganisation with only nine per cent feeling that a change was required . |
| 3 | On the other hand , he was extremely difficult to pin down to any conclusion . |
| 4 | In section 4.3 you will see that there is some evidence that Venus is not as geologically active as the Earth , which could indicate a cool interior right down to any iron core , which could largely be solid and thus explain the small dipole moment . |
| 5 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 6 | All three elements have to come in to any budget decision and nobody can ignore all three , indeed if you look around three groups of the council you 'll see that all the budget proposed tonight will take into account all three areas . |
| 7 | The the the they 're not fitted in to any framework of stronger structures to back er the proposals put before us er er t today . |
| 8 | Alyssia refused to give in to any urge to stare at Piers , though she was sorely tempted . |
| 9 | Take a sheet of paper before going in to any negotiation and empty your mind onto the sheet of paper . |
| 10 | erm which quite simply I had some money of my own and I was n't that hungry er to jump in to any job at all . |
| 11 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 12 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 13 | However , they will not be able to get through to any polytechnic or college in the country . |
| 14 | and offering her services more generally to any man who is failing to " get " the object of his desires . |
| 15 | It was taken for granted that the introduction of women generally to any trade carried the risk of lowering wages ; basically because as we have seen , the wages paid for " women 's work " were so low . |
| 16 | The art of the general in dance means that the choreographer must understand the working of a dancer 's body and its ability to respond physically to any demand for movement . |
| 17 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |
| 18 | Most of the SNC meteorites have sustained shock , but not to any degree approaching that predicted for Martian target rocks . |
| 19 | It has been shown ( see introduction ) that chronic smoking leads to a chronically raised gastric secretory capacity in both control and duodenal ulcer subjects , and that the secretory capacity of an individual is related solely to the size of his parietal cell mass , and not to any change in the sensitivity of those cells ; this also appears to be the case in smokers . |
| 20 | The Home Office agreed , attributing the upsurge to the ‘ general fear of war that exists in the lower middle and working classes , and not to any tenderness for Russia . ’ |
| 21 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 22 | What she saw amounted almost to an urge to confess ; not to any offence , but to something that was old and troubling and somehow unresolved . |
| 23 | Such a task for sociology may appear reasonable and innocuous , particularly in societies which embrace a commitment to the principle of using knowledge for practical purposes and not to any principle of knowledge for knowledge 's sake' . |
| 24 | These categories , it should be stressed , refer only to changes of use , not to any building work . |
| 25 | Their leader Lord Lovat thought their safe return was due to ‘ the opposition being half-hearted or badly trained ’ and not to any skill on the raiders ' part . |
| 26 | The problem of Sunday caddies was again aired but not to any effect , the committee believing it had to abide by the ‘ banning ’ decision made at the earlier bondholders meeting . |
| 27 | I 'm aware of the accounts they 've handled successfully and also the fact that , owing to the recent recession and not to any fault of their own , they 've been seriously affected by the cut-back in promotion budgets of several of their larger clients . ’ |
| 28 | As an alternative to direct exchange between service points some authorities create circulating collections of ‘ low-interest ’ subjects which move location periodically without being assigned permanently to any base . |
| 29 | Since he did not commit himself unreservedly to any party he earned a reputation for political inconsistency , and had to confront the hazards of non-alignment when war broke out in 1642 . |
| 30 | But , when he gets too close to any dog he growls and barks . |