Example sentences of "[v-ing] any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. W. Hastings , who was present , went much further in his hostility to male printers and thought it would be a positive " advantage if wages were lowered in the printing trade " , referring to the London union ( the London Society of Compositors ) as " one of the most powerful and most structured trade unions in London " , which , unjustifiably in his view , " prevented any printer employing any compositor at less than 33s a week " . |
| 2 | We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds . |
| 3 | DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE Bill Clinton wants to be President of the world 's only superpower — a nation capable of swatting any other off the globe at the push of a button . |
| 4 | This court is in no way prejudging any defence of justification which may hereafter be raised in those libel proceedings . |
| 5 | SCSI and Ethernet devices are integrated closely into the system , enabling any processor within the system to be attached to a SCSI or Ethernet controller . |
| 6 | SCSI and ethernet devices are closely integrated into the system enabling any processor within the system to be attached to a SCSI or ethernet controller . |
| 7 | and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult |
| 8 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 9 | Iran took part in the summits of the Non-Aligned in 1979 and 1983 , and the new Iranian constitution defined the basis of the country 's foreign policy inter alia as ‘ ending any kind of domination , … practicing non-alignment with respect to the dominating powers and maintaining mutual peaceful relationships with non-belligerent nations ’ . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the processing of gastrin in duodenal ulcer patients may be altered and that aberrent forms of gastrin that are immunoreactive but not bioactive may circulate , thus obscuring any correlation between gastrin and gastric acid secretion . |
| 11 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 12 | You are damaging the Labour Party , you are jeopardizing any opposition to this , this present Government , you 're jeopardizing the future survival of the Labour Party . |
| 13 | It was unnaturally neat , and it carefully refrained from revealing any signs of individuality . |
| 14 | Under this scheme , voters can be penalised for failing to list tall lesbians , Egyptian cross-dressers , and short-sighted window-cleaners in the correct order of preference — although , in order to avoid discrimination , election literature is prohibited from revealing any details at all about candidates , including their names . |
| 15 | On the first occasion a violent thunderstorm blew up on that beautiful summer day , wrecking any attempt at further recording and causing damage to the equipment . |
| 16 | If you have a push-button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1–78 . |
| 17 | If you have a push-button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1–78 . |
| 18 | If you have a push button phone , you can choose your reading by pressing any number from 1-78 . |
| 19 | He must also take such steps as are necessary for protecting any property of the estate but is not under an obligation to do anything which would involve him in expense ( s 287(3) ) . |
| 20 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , despite recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |
| 21 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , in spite of recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |
| 22 | ‘ It may not be as comfortable as an ordinary saloon , ’ Ward said on a note of apology , ‘ but buggered if Ah was takin' any chances in a country like this . ’ |
| 23 | Legal documents , by that I mean be very wary of signing any kind of legal document in a shop . |
| 24 | If you sign the document in your own home , as you would do with a doorstep salesman , er then the law does give you a chance to change your mind , although I hope for goodness sake you would all be very wary about signing any kind of legal document thrust under your nose from a doorstep salesman . |
| 25 | This can not be taken for granted , however , and it is worth fending off inevitable disappointment by making enquiries before signing any contract of employment . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I do not regard the non-renewal as representing any reduction in our commitment to ex-servicemen . |
| 27 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 28 | This has resulted in a proposal that one phoneme symbol ( e.g. ) be used for representing any occurrence of or , so that ‘ cup ’ would be transcribed and ‘ upper ’ as . |
| 29 | Incidentally , Re Sigsworth is enough to disprove the oft-repeated assertion that ‘ where the words of an Act of Parliament are clear , there is no room for applying any principles of interpretation . ’ |
| 30 | Given this array of auxiliaries and the possibility of applying any number of them simultaneously , it is plain that a citation order for the inclusion of auxiliaries in a number must be settled . |