Example sentences of "[adv] any [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 2 | Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators . |
| 3 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 4 | Being constantly self-critical provides no guarantee of truth nor necessarily any immunity from prejudice and error . |
| 5 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 6 | Er , obviously any Ministry of Defence er er contract is a soft touch as regarded by the supplier . |
| 7 | What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be . |
| 8 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 9 | So any increase in output will have to come from better farming methods , particularly in countries like India , whose rice farmers lag well behind Japan 's in productivity . |
| 10 | It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous . |
| 11 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
| 12 | For a physicalist , a mode of access is just a physical process , so any mode of access V enjoys should , if physicalism be true , be available to BS . |
| 13 | They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account . |
| 14 | I 'm not any kind of competition for her . |
| 15 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 16 | It is not breath , not wind , not any kind of elixir or potion . |
| 17 | This Gruyère is made in the high alpine mountains , the paste is soft and supple , the cut shows not any hole like butter . " |
| 18 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 19 | So far as dreaming is concerned , it seems that the most striking difference between modern Western culture and pre-scientific cultures is not any decrease in mysticism or Informal supernatural beliefs , but an explosion in the number of alternative explanations for dreaming . |
| 20 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 21 | It hangs over any thickness of wardrobe rail and fastens with Velcro . |
| 22 | ‘ The proved long-term risks of lung cancer — and the smaller risk of leukaemia , from inhaling it over any period of time — mean it has to be regarded very seriously . ’ |
| 23 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 24 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 25 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 26 | Scrub away any residue with water and a stiff brush . |
| 27 | United are 16th and still need the points to wash away any fear of relegation . |
| 28 | There were scarcely any towns of significance near Poltava . |
| 29 | If the hon. Gentleman had showed even a tiny amount of the indignation that he expresses about empty houses in Swindon in relation to all those in areas under Labour control , there would be scarcely any problems of homelessness in Britain . |
| 30 | Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure . |