Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [pron] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ? |
| 2 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 3 | What about the judging , is that really based on the the turnout or is there any ploughing skill involved in that as well ? |
| 4 | ‘ Is this number ones and number twos , sir ? ’ he said — ‘ or is there any flexibility on that ? ’ |
| 5 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 6 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 7 | Nor are there any signs of a slowdown , with investment commitments in manufacturing in 1992 expected to exceed the 1991 record of S$2.9bn . |
| 8 | There are no head-modifier constructions whose modifiers are obligatory in the sense that the construction would be ungrammatical without them ; nor are there any head-modifier constructions whose modifiers , if omitted , become latent . |
| 9 | Nor are there any madrigalian extravagances in Hassler 's madrigals ; they make good use of antiphony between higher and lower voice-groups as in the openings of ‘ Ach Schatz , ich thu dir klagen ’ and ‘ Fahr hin , guts Liedelein ’ ; but they lack rhythmic spring . |
| 10 | Nor are there any awards to industries seen as critical in environmental terms , such as bulk chemicals , oil and gas , paper and pulp , mining and quarrying , batteries and energy storage and packaging . |
| 11 | Nor were there any colourful bazaars , though there was a market where I later bought fruit , vegetables , eggs and three small glasses , the sort from which Algerians drink their coffee . |
| 12 | Aerial photographs showed there was no boom protecting the dry-dock gate ( the caisson ‘ E ’ on diagram p. 41 ) nor were there any barbed-wire entanglements ashore on the quays . |
| 13 | The then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young , decided that there were no grounds for referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ; nor were there any grounds for referring the Suchard holding in Rowntree , which had , by that time , been increased to 29.9 per cent . |
| 14 | In brief then , there was no shortage of capital nor were there any institutional barriers to its being invested in the manufacturing industries in Britain . |
| 15 | During the study period , none of the participating organisations suffered major or catastrophic losses , nor were there any fatal injuries or prosecutions . |
| 16 | Nor were there any rushes on the floor with their usual fleas and dirt but thick woollen carpets of the purest white . |
| 17 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 18 | Nor is it any good hoping you 'll raise all the money at the conference itself if three-quarters of the bills have to be paid beforehand . |
| 19 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 20 | Nor is it any use going with non-riding friends or family , unless riding is just one part of a sporting package which also includes walking and fishing for example , or even wind surfing or canoeing . |
| 21 | Nor is there any reason to suppose that the peaks and valleys of the fluctuations have greater neural or psychological significance than any other intermediate point . |
| 22 | Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions , to attend to the views of ‘ every crackpot messiah round the world ’ , since ‘ it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso , for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind ’ . |
| 23 | Nor is there any sense in banning strikes ‘ temporarily ’ , since the economic crisis which gives rise to labour unrest is anything but temporary , and the radical measures of economic reform ( such as market prices ) which might ultimately solve this crisis have not yet been adopted and will take years to yield results . |
| 24 | Nor is there any salvation in the rake 's progress of perpetual devaluation . |
| 25 | Nor is there any reason why the state should tell firms how to attract and keep good staff in a country where qualified labour can be hard to find . |
| 26 | Nor is there any likelihood of competition being diminished , except in the case of one minor product , titanium dioxide . |
| 27 | There is little or nothing on the coloration of other everyday materials , such as leather and paper , nor is there any mention of non-substrate uses , such as in dye lasers or photovoltaic cells . |
| 28 | Incidentally , the twelve signs of the zodiac did not appear in Egypt until the Hellenistic period , nor is there any trace of astrological ideas there before then . |
| 29 | Nor is there any lack of potential supply . |
| 30 | Nor is there any reason why the Articles of the Company should depart from the pattern of other major companies . |