Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 2 | It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face . |
| 3 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 4 | Perhaps Mr. Cowan should resume his more normal incessant political instruction on those matters that puzzle the lesser members of our own contemporary society , who are obviously deemed to lack any ability to think for themselves . |
| 5 | you 've only got to see any tax that goes up and everyone 's up in arms about it . |
| 6 | On this bright morning she was especially inspired to follow any clue leading to almost any little act of kindness or deed of love . |
| 7 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 8 | Another trial carried out in New Zealand , and widely quoted in the medical literature , apparently failed to find any link between the mother 's diet and colic in breast-fed babies . |
| 9 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 10 | In 1967 the British presence in the Middle East obviously failed to offer any protection to British oil interests during the Arab-Israeli war . |
| 11 | Now go ahead to reach Piazza Giuseppe Missori , a square dominated less by the buildings , which are not well enough ordered to impose any discipline on the place , than by the statue of General Missori himself . |
| 12 | I have , by and large , already stopped taking any notice . " |
| 13 | My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ . |
| 14 | The British and US governments , which have both signed but not yet ratified these Protocols , were the only signatories to make the explicit reservation ‘ that the new rules introduced by the Protocol are not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 15 | When signing the protocol on 12 December 1977 , both the UK and the USA declared that they did so on the understanding that the rules in the protocol were ‘ not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 16 | The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford . |
| 17 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 18 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 19 | Because he is waiting to see if the anticipatory breach turns into non-performance in fact , he is not expected to buy any replacement goods until the date of actual non-performance . |
| 20 | They are not expected to win any seats . |
| 21 | And I 'm certainly not prepared to take any advice from them , when they ca n't even pay their way in the Labour Party . |
| 22 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 23 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 24 | I said but you 've not got to do any work for this . |
| 25 | The king-duke was sovereign and was not bound to pay any homage , fealty or feudal service to the crown of France . |
| 26 | The authority may not determine the application before the period is complete but they are not bound to follow any representations received although they must consider them . |
| 27 | Finally , in group 4 , we have not attempted to fit any model . |
| 28 | She had never known anything about that occasion ; her mother had never mentioned it — and had certainly not seemed to suffer any ill-effects herself . |
| 29 | Mr Peters was particularly famous in connection with the Somerset and Dorset Railway , and was not known to have any link with our line . |
| 30 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |