Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 2 | There was no enthusiasm at that time from local residents for such a project , nor was any land available for such housing and it was agreed to take no further action on this . |
| 3 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 5 | This point apparently passed unnoticed , and the practice was never mentioned again in the review , nor was any acknowledgement of it included in the final report despite protestations by the Head of Department when its contents were being negotiated . |
| 6 | Nor was any attempt made to measure drug pressure , and data on response to other antimalarials were not presented . |
| 7 | Neither of them was present before the judge , nor was any affidavit evidence to a contrary effect presented on their behalf . |
| 8 | Nor was any indication given as to under what circumstances the minority ‘ labelling ’ effect occurred . |
| 9 | No proceedings were taken against them ; but nor was any attention paid to their appeal , and the stone was hurried back to Westminster . |