Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 2 | In their evidence to the Redcliffe-Maud Commission , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( MHLG ) ( as it then was ) argued that it led neither to an improved speed nor to a better quality of development control : the advantages which flowed from delegating some of the work load to district councils were offset by the shortage of qualified planning staff in most district offices , by the limited range of problems which arose within any one area , by the difficulties caused by the natural inclination of district councils to take a ‘ narrow view ’ , and by the extra administrative complications that limited delegation usually entailed . |
| 3 | As the table shows , detached , or almost detached , boards were the most common specific defect , affecting more than half ( 59% ) of all items in need of repair , while loose , or almost loose , pages ( 27% ) , heavy soiling ( 20% ) , and apparently acidic paper ( 18% ) were the only other specific defects which occurred to any significant extent . |
| 4 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 5 | Sharpe was among the staff officers who trotted their horses down the Charleroi road , past the Gemioncourt farm by the ford , and so on up the shallow hill until they reached the infantry brigade which guarded against any frontal attack up the high road . |
| 6 | Nothing was said there which relied on any special characteristic of pain . |
| 7 | The health authority declined to be interviewed , but in a written statement it said Michelle Howard 's paralysis was caused by a rare condition known as a fibro cartilagenous embolism , which developed without any negligence by hospital staff . |
| 8 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 9 | 4 Phrases and words In Rex Stewart etc. v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 the court was asked to consider a non-solicitation clause which related to any person " … who to your knowledge is or has been during the period of your employment a customer of the company … |
| 10 | Never again was it to be so easy for blunt common sense , which knew in any case that the triumphant world of liberal capitalist progress was the best of all possible worlds , to mobilise the universe on behalf of its prejudices . |
| 11 | When we look at circumstances in the past , and see the patterns of support between kin which prevailed at any given point , we are looking at situations very different from our own in important and relevant ways . |
| 12 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 13 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |