Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 2 | However , two recent placebo controlled studies using prolonged oesophageal pH monitoring failed to show any effect of theophylline or Β agonists on the severity of GOR parameters . |
| 3 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 4 | Nearly one-fifth of the researchers failed to produce any papers whatsoever after completing their research , and there are significant differences between universities in the proportions of unproductive researchers . |
| 5 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 6 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 7 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 8 | In any case , a recent mass stranding of pilot whales on the eastern coast of the United States failed to reveal any Stenurus in the air sinuses . |
| 9 | But the results obtained by pioneer workers were not confirmed , when properly controlled experiments in infected animals failed to achieve any success . |
| 10 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 11 | Eventually , the term came to denote any number which , when added to a figurate number , generates the next higher number of the same shape ( triangular numbers , square numbers , pentagonal numbers , and so on ) . |
| 12 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |
| 13 | LATE SHOW RANGERS suffered a shock defeat at this venue early last season and a repeat looked on the cards as the Ibrox side struggled to find any rhythm after their extra-time exertions against Aberdeen in midweek . |
| 14 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 15 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 16 | By picking away at every factual link in the chain from furnace to fishless lake , Britain 's electricity industry hoped to avoid any restrictions on atmospheric discharges , whether ‘ arbitrary ’ or not . |
| 17 | Finally we asked teachers if their school or department had undertaken any kind of SSE exercise without using the Solihull booklet . |
| 18 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 19 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 20 | The years of dishonesty and drunkenness which preceded my trip to Boulogne had erased any feeling of homesickness , and by November 1984 , I could write them a composed , controlled letter from a Legion barrack room without any problem . |
| 21 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |
| 22 | Later , after Picasso had denied any knowledge of African art in the Enquête sur l'Art Négre conducted by the review Action in 1920 , Paul Guillaume , the first Parisian art-dealer to become interested in African and other primitive sculptures as works of art , wrote : ‘ Picasso owns a certain number of pieces of very different origins ; he makes a pretence of attaching no importance to their chronology . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions following the hearing , except to say he has n't seen his brother-in-law . |
| 24 | The sales department refused to accept any cars from the factory which did not meet rigid quality guidelines . |
| 25 | However , the five main opposition parties refused to accept any role in his government , whose main task was thought to be to supervise the shift to multiparty politics and the adoption of a new constitution during 1991 . |
| 26 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 27 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 28 | The Northern Echo revealed last month that Darlington council failed to give any money to celebrate the anniversary of North Road railway station . |
| 29 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 30 | The rich ignore the simplest things in the area of earning , making , keeping , regarding money , and the bear-leader forgot to put any receptacle for money on the ground in front of them . |