Example sentences of "[verb] any [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will also allow us to get the most up to date information and solve any problems of inaccuracy . ’ |
| 2 | Many older people may consider any limitations of activity which they experience to be a result of old age rather than a chronic health problem . |
| 3 | Visitors are being asked to be on their guard against fire and not to use stoves ; to dispose of cigarette ends and matches carefully and immediately report any sign of fire to the fire brigade . |
| 4 | Report any shortage of clothing to a senior member of staff . |
| 5 | Note and report any indications of haemorrhage or shock , i.e. : |
| 6 | If the one-tier board structure were used , then the executive directors would ‘ manage ’ and the non-executive directors would ‘ supervise ’ ; to some extent , the boards of UK-listed companies are already moving towards this division , albeit not on a prescribed legal basis , with the establishment of audit committees of non-executive directors to whom the auditors report any matter of concern in the company 's draft accounts , and with the determination of the remuneration of executive directors by a committee of non-executive directors , who also deal with ethical matters and conflicts of interest . |
| 7 | The security of IT systems is a matter of universal concern to all businesses which place any kind of reliance on IT for their continuing viability . |
| 8 | The assumption that university matriculation still exercises any kind of influence on examinations at the age of 16 should be excised . |
| 9 | Bank Rate was the rate at which discount houses could borrow from the Bank in order to meet any shortage of liquidity . |
| 10 | Well-bribed assassins — my uncle s creatures I doubt not — were marking my every move , ready to meet any show of force with greater force . |
| 11 | This court is in no way prejudging any defence of justification which may hereafter be raised in those libel proceedings . |
| 12 | Iran took part in the summits of the Non-Aligned in 1979 and 1983 , and the new Iranian constitution defined the basis of the country 's foreign policy inter alia as ‘ ending any kind of domination , … practicing non-alignment with respect to the dominating powers and maintaining mutual peaceful relationships with non-belligerent nations ’ . |
| 13 | On behalf of MPL , I refute any charges of corruption . ’ |
| 14 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 15 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 16 | Mr. Beazley submitted that the court 's decision in paragraphs 17 and 18 of the judgment , which is also reflected in the answer given to the question in the court 's ruling , is conclusive in his favour and determinative of the construction of article 5(3) ; and that in consequence articles 5(1) and 5(3) are to be construed as mutually exclusive , but as all-embracing so far as actions to establish any kind of liability of the defendants are concerned . |
| 17 | Orr 's article provides a good summary of the problems faced in trying to establish any form of benefit . |
| 18 | Some vineyards may not be mentioned because they have only recently been cultivated and , therefore , have not been in production long enough to establish any sort of reputation . |
| 19 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 20 | One of the major problems of building a theory of soil erosion is the high degree of contingency which always accompanies any explanation of soil erosion at a particular place . |
| 21 | It was unnaturally neat , and it carefully refrained from revealing any signs of individuality . |
| 22 | The fact that believing in God involves an acceptance of uncertainty does not allow us to accept any degree of uncertainty , or that trust will also be misplaced . |
| 23 | The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods . |
| 24 | By contrast , the 1987 intake included a mere nineteen MPs who were farmers or landowners , and only twenty-four who listed any kind of field sports as a recreation , a far cry from the party of thirty years earlier . |
| 25 | His son Rolf , who disowned him after failing to extract any signs of remorse from him , visited him in 1977 . |
| 26 | Though why she should need any kind of defence against Niall Grant was a question to which there seemed no logical answer . |
| 27 | Should the Programmer be prevented for any reason from completing and delivering the Program by the agreed date , then as an alternative ( in the case of the Programmer 's breach ) to terminating this Agreement the Publisher , after giving the Programmer reasonable notice , may commission the completion of the Program by another programmer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties ; the payment due to the Programmer under Clause 2 shall be altered accordingly ; and the Programmer will immediately deliver to the Publisher such materials as he has prepared , and refund any advance of payment which he has received . |
| 28 | Should the Programmer be prevented for any reason from completing and delivering the Program by the agreed date , then as an alternative ( in the case of the Programmer 's breach ) to terminating this Agreement the Publisher , after giving the Programmer reasonable notice , may commission the completion of the Program by another programmer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties ; the payment due to the Programmer under Clause 2 shall be altered accordingly ; and the Programmer will immediately deliver to the Publisher such materials as he has prepared , and refund any advance of payment which he has received . |
| 29 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 30 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |