Example sentences of "[adj] for any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under pressure from Russian nationalists , however , Yeltsin had made increasingly overt statements in the weeks preceding his visit suggesting that the time was not right for any major alteration in the status of the disputed territory , and calling for greater Japanese flexibility on the issue of the sovereignty of the islands . |
| 2 | It may also swell the juice within the grapes to bursting point , ruining the fruit for winemaking unless harvested and transported to the press while still frozen , which would hardly be practicable for any significant area of vines affected by frost . |
| 3 | As I discovered this arrangement , I began to feel almost sorry for any potential thief . |
| 4 | Odilo is hysterically grateful for any sylvan handful or eyeful or mouthful that comes his way . |
| 5 | That we were grateful to Miss Stonedale and Miss Stott was frequently evidenced by entries in the Food Suggestion Book such as ‘ That the Bursar be thanked for banana custard in Hall last night ’ , signed by a string of appreciative consumers grateful for any tasty variation from the limited wartime menu recalled by many . |
| 6 | You 'll need to be on the alert for any unusual eventuality , as your behaviour during this arduous time will govern future happenings . |
| 7 | Cleo was alert for any patrolling servant , but Lorimer seemed oblivious to such hazards . |
| 8 | So you will search in vain for any sixteen-inch cylinders today . |
| 9 | But despite this , it is significant that in the entire teaching of the New Testament epistles you will search in vain for any sustained exhortation to evangelise . |
| 10 | Goods which are useless or unsuitable for any normal purpose will still correspond with their description ( here ‘ Norwegian Herring Meal ’ ) if it accurately identified them . |
| 11 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 12 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 13 | However , the motion does not remain periodic for any great distance downstream . |
| 14 | By then a title had been decided on , they had thought of Where It 's At , right for the times , but wrong for any other time . |
| 15 | It is wrong for any local authority not to take into account people 's ability to pay . |
| 16 | It is wrong for any realistic person to pursue such outmoded attitudes , especially anyone in government . |
| 17 | Unable to follow his original line of work in demolition following industrial injury and , unqualified for any other job , he finds himself , at the age of 57 , resigned to a life on the dole until pension age arrives . |
| 18 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 19 | To this end , Darwin adduces , most especially , those phenomena that would be anomalous for any exclusive correlation of maturation , fertilization and impressionability with sexual rather than asexual modes of generation . |
| 20 | These rates are payable for any new members joining the Society from September on — thus giving three free months . |
| 21 | Your accommodation vouchers are valid for one night only in Belfast and a supplement of £3.00 per night is payable for any additional nights at the Belfast Youth Hostel . |
| 22 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 23 | Butler herself presented a memorial to the Foreign Secretary , signed by a thousand women and calling for changes in the law , so that ‘ it should be impossible for any young girl to be deprived of her liberty by fraud or force ’ . |
| 24 | It is mathematically impossible for any Democratic rival to overhaul Clinton in the primary process . |
| 25 | This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease . |
| 26 | Moreover , information that is filed is not necessarily reliable , or in a form appropriate for any comparative analysis ; for example , the methods of calculating depreciation differ . |
| 27 | They differ not in respect of reaction patterns but in the economic characteristics of the market concerned , and it is a matter of fact , not logic , to decide which model is appropriate for any particular market under study . |
| 28 | Councillor could I just perhaps request that you perhaps do n't make it quite so easy for any future break-ins . |
| 29 | There are a number of print options which complete this professional training aid fit for any professional or amateur team . |
| 30 | John had spent months on a diet which would have counted this country meal as a feast fit for any Honourable Member of Parliament in the land . |