Example sentences of "[adv] at any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 2 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 3 | It 's a dark room , so at any time of the day that light would be switched on by anyone wanting to read . ’ |
| 4 | Donations to the ‘ Around the Isles ’ charity fund for multiple sclerosis may be paid in at any branch of the Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland . |
| 5 | Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 8 | However , you can take out all or part of your money quickly and easily at any time without affecting the tax-free status of your investment . |
| 9 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 10 | The clause read : In the event of the determination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever [ Harris ] shall not at any time within 12 months after such determination : ( i ) enter into a Contract of Service or other Agreement of a like nature with GUS Ltd or any company subsidiary thereto or be directly or indirectly engaged concerned or interested in the trading or business of the said GUS Ltd or any such company aforesaid … |
| 11 | ‘ Her brother , possibly , but not , I should have thought for long and certainly not at any risk to herself . |
| 12 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 13 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 14 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 15 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 16 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 17 | Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet . |
| 18 | Cursor positioning refers to the system positioning the cursor automatically at any point on the screen where an entry is required to complete the transaction . |
| 19 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 20 | We both know that we can — and have done — ring each other up at any hour of the day or night . |
| 21 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 22 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 23 | When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future . |
| 24 | And he may turn up at any moment with a simple explanation , and wonder what we 've been worrying about . ’ |
| 25 | Even after the pole struck Dennis on the head and he disappeared from sight , I remember thinking that he would pop up at any moment alongside the boat , like a coot . |
| 26 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 27 | McAlpine says : ‘ The whole sector — commercial building , industrial building and civil engineering — is being hit worse now than probably at any time during this recession . ’ |
| 28 | At one time — probably at any time between the Restoration and , for a terminal date , the Second World War — those questions might have been rejected by literate folk as quite foolish and empty ; because Horace has been , after all , almost an honorary Briton , so pervasive is his cultural presence . |
| 29 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he will look equally thoroughly and carefully at any proposals from hospitals in Tayside ? |
| 30 | Look carefully at any windows in hallways , corridors and on stairs to decide whether you should curtain them , blind them , shutter them or leave them alone . |