Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | d ) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment . |
| 2 | Resolved , That , for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Traffic Calming Bill , it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment . |
| 3 | Lord Barnett said : ’ The 1974-79 Labour Government had a difficult economic and financial task rendered impossible by pledges foolishly made without any serious thought as to where the money would come from . |
| 4 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 5 | This great Irish tragedy claimed some 2 million lives and of those who survived thousands were forced to emigrate to North America , resulting in one of the most crippling population losses ever experienced by any country . |
| 6 | Bernice said , her archaeologist 's mind ever alert to any opportunity to pin down the Doctor to a specific date . |
| 7 | The citizens charter is simply the most comprehensive programme ever launched by any Government anywhere to improve public services . |
| 8 | Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off . |
| 9 | I 'll leave you to your fate , but I warn you , tame dragons never come to any good . |
| 10 | We can see our own ‘ freedoms ’ caricatured in the south : the ebb and flow of free-market economics in the ‘ metropolitan ’ countries is matched by the alternation of democratic and authoritarian regimes in the south , in which the economic policies scarcely vary in any particular , and in which the steady flow of wealth from poor to rich is consistently maintained . |
| 11 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 12 | Yes i , on , on the side which we believe er matters , if you like , the side that faces the er , the road , and faces the bungalows we we 've sought to achieve that erm , on the rear elevations it 's perhaps a less important issue so looking at any of the erm large coloured elevated sheets the upper drawing represents the street side , the side that faces the bungalows and the side where scale issue becomes er , more important and the lower drawing erm where there 's er an eaves and gutter above the first is are actually the the back garden side that erm will be seen perhaps less . |
| 13 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 14 | The employment of the otherwise unemployed members of the hotels and catering casual labour force is clearly precarious , but its precariousness scarcely stems from any inadequacies of employment protection legislation . |
| 15 | The Marshal , his big eyes rolling round the depressing room lit by one dusty light-bulb because the small , barred window hardly let in any light , wondered if they ever managed it . |
| 16 | The well known excess of leukaemia began around 1979 , at the same time as the increases found by this study in rural areas far removed from any nuclear installation — but all affected by population mixing associated with the oil industry . |
| 17 | God is called ‘ Father ’ 170 times by Jesus in the gospels , and in his prayers never invoked by any other name . |
| 18 | Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size . |
| 19 | As this wall faces north the sun seldom shines on any of these , a dismal fact for gardeners working in them but usual for old kitchen gardens where every inch of warm south-facing ground was wanted for crops . |
| 20 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 21 | The Maréchal de Bassompierre , again a military man , after another brief embassy to London five years later , was given by Charles I " four diamonds set in a lozenge , and a great stone at the end " : this was said to be worth £7,000 and was perhaps the most valuable present ever given by any English ruler to a foreign diplomat . |
| 22 | Last night Liverpool council commented in a statement : ‘ These matters have now been resolved by the courts after one of the most thorough investigations ever undertaken into any council 's affairs . ’ |
| 23 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |
| 24 | Throughout the war there operated a " political truce " in accordance with which each major party agreed not to contest seats formerly held by any of the others . |
| 25 | The Shoctector simply plugs into any standard ‘ square ’ pin socket . |
| 26 | No possibilities here to warm to any feeling of myself as " clever " ; the aching question instead was why the divine hand had seen fit to bestow these talents on me and not on the next child . |
| 27 | Sentences like " Jones exists " were dismissed as cases of bad grammar on the grounds that the use of the proper name already dispensed with any services that the predicate " exists " might provide . |
| 28 | In classical art we see the Greeks finally leaving behind any subservience to earlier traditions , and establishing their own style . |
| 29 | It was conceived as the proper function of the nation 's mothers to rear ( within families suitably inoculated against any possibility of communism in the home ) fine imperial specimens of manhood . |
| 30 | If we can establish through very careful analysis what the ratio are between certain elements and each other then that ratio also holds between any given element and total salinity , yes ? |