Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 2 | A judge said it is the duty of the courts to support any attempts being made to prevent crimes of that nature . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ It is the duty of the courts to support any attempts being made to prevent crimes of this nature . ’ |
| 4 | However , only half the states produced any statistics , it not being standard practice to record lunatics as part of the prison population . |
| 5 | This was not the case in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , and the Convention of Royal Burghs passed several Acts prohibiting any persons from being chosen as Commissioners from Boroughs to the Parliament , except freemen , merchants and traffickers . |
| 6 | Do you really believe star signs make any difference ? ’ |
| 7 | The rules mean any child under three in the front seat of any vehicle will have to be strapped into a special restraining belt . |
| 8 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 9 | Such information will enable the Branch to provide assessments of whatever marches , meetings , demonstrations and pickets pose any threat to public order and help the officer to determine an appropriate level of policing . |
| 10 | Primary cases involve any allegation that a child is being physically or sexually abused , neglected , is failing to thrive , is left alone , or is severely at risk of being abused . |
| 11 | This was the product of centuries of historical accidents : indeed until the treaties of Madrid in 1526 and Cambrai in 1529 , which ended for several generations to come any vestiges of French sovereignty over Amiens and the Vermandois , it is hardly possible to speak of a state frontier at all between France and the Low Countries . |
| 12 | Only Swimmer of Lakes made any sound , a restless snorting , an anxious pawing at the ground . |
| 13 | The British government took decisive steps to disrupt any threat from Sweden . |
| 14 | The schools lacked any concept of educational advancement and were not providing a popular education as the basis of a common citizenship nor as a matter of occupational utility . |
| 15 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 16 | Make sure that no instance of her tantrums receives any reinforcement ! |
| 17 | Corbett looked into the green darkness , straining his eyes to see any movement and almost screamed with terror as a hand touched his leg . |
| 18 | One of my favourites is the ‘ MEANINGLESS ’ section , where none of the books make any sense . |
| 19 | Nor does the need for more fertilisers for purposes of modern agricultural methods pose any problem , as there are ample supplies of phosphates and potash . |
| 20 | However , there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on . |
| 21 | Of crucial importance is that none of these experiments require the animals to suffer any pain whatsoever . |
| 22 | None of the beneficiaries has any interest in the property — except in respect of income on capital actually paid to him . |
| 23 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 24 | Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light . |
| 25 | Although they had no power to punish prisoners themselves , the overseers reported any misdemeanours to staff and their word would almost always be taken against that of another prisoner . |
| 26 | Few insurers place any restrictions on young people using an organ . |
| 27 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 28 | The current defence budget of less than $15 billion left the armed forces with virtually no reserves to meet any intensification of the Cold War . |
| 29 | 7.7.3 to keep the Premises supplied with such fire fighting equipment as the insurers and the fire authority may require [ or as the Landlord may reasonably require ] and to maintain such equipment to their satisfaction and in efficient working order and at least once in every [ 6 ] months to cause any sprinkler system and other fire fighting equipment to be inspected by a competent person The same argument as above applies with regard to fire fighting equipment . |
| 30 | None of the study subjects received any drug prohibited by the study protocol within six months of endoscopy , apart from four patients ( not on NSAIDs ) , who took antibiotics for chest infection , two to three months before recruitment . |