Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [v-ing] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many so-called experts in business schools are drop-outs from industry who 've never succeeded in making any profit in their life : hardly a qualification for teaching business success . |
| 2 | The Statement of Practice will be applied in settling any tax liability that is not final at 3 July 1992 . |
| 3 | Only if the coin list from a site varied in some particular way from the typical pattern would we be justified in drawing any specific conclusion about it : an absence of fourth-century coins , say , would strongly suggest that the site was abandoned in that period . |
| 4 | But then , in the last paragraph , they concluded that ‘ we would not be justified in attaching any criticism or blame to the present Government for the Argentine Junta 's decision to commit its act of unprovoked aggression in the invasion of the Falkland Islands . ’ |
| 5 | No doubt a finder of perishable commodities would be justified in taking any reasonable steps to preserve them pending the ascertainment of their owner ; e.g . |
| 6 | Supposing after enquiry the deaf were able to make out their case , would any Government , be it Conservative or Liberal or Labour , be justified in resisting any scheme of amelioration because similar demands might be made by other classes ? |
| 7 | 8.1 Neither party shall be under any liability to the other if and for so long as it is prevented from or delayed in performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control . |
| 8 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |