Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 2 | The Labour Party believes that these qualifications are so serious that they remove any presumption that the government can rely on a free market economy . |
| 3 | A number of manors , such as Patching , complained repeatedly that they could not cope with such demands ; there is little evidence that they got any cuts . |
| 4 | Since the British Ministry of Agriculture learned of the investigation last March , it has written to 262 US pesticide companies demanding that they reveal any work conducted by Craven . |
| 5 | This dual safeguard , which was designed not merely to maintain the real value of benefits , but also to guarantee that they paralleled any increase in the real incomes of the working population , was removed in 1980 . |
| 6 | The Direktor felt , not for the first time , deeply resentful of the fact that they had any part in choosing the programme . |
| 7 | Both consistently denied that they had any case to answer . |
| 8 | They both knew that a loss had been suffered which had to be apportioned between them , but there is nothing to show that they had any idea , let alone conflicting ideas , of what the correct apportionment should be . |
| 9 | Only the precision of their linear positioning suggested that they had any significance at all . |
| 10 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 11 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 12 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |
| 13 | Evidence that they achieve any results other than taking up time and leaving you sticky is not , to the best of my knowledge , available . |
| 14 | He can argue plausibly that there is a correct , if controversial , way to interpret the abstract conventions of legislation and precedent so that they decide any case that might arise . |
| 15 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 16 | Perhaps because it is of the very essence of human beings that they transcend any situation into which they come or bring about . |
| 17 | Hectic trading in which 3.1 million shares — worth £8million — changed hands was followed by a retreat to 238p when the Barclays vehemently denied that they held any shares in Williams . |
| 18 | I would not recommend to this side that they have any truck with that particular perspective . |
| 19 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 20 | I do not think that they have any intention of using them — nor have the Russians — but the risk that , as the system disintegrates , people may simply sell off the smaller nuclear weapons is a real one . |
| 21 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 22 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |
| 23 | The children , I thought , were not particularly bright and they found any sort of work very difficult . |
| 24 | ‘ All that rigmarole about the house being a haunted house was just to keep people from inquiring if they saw any signs of William Egan 's habitation ? ’ |
| 25 | I tell them I 'm the Conductor , tell them where my office is , tell them if they 've any problems to bring them to me . ’ |
| 26 | There 's still probably a lot more people thought who saw things out there , and we 'd still like them to contact us at Cowley if they 've any information as to who the offenders are . |
| 27 | All patients were encouraged to become familiar with their own mole pattern and to return to the clinic before the next regular appointment if they observed any change . |
| 28 | This would mean that Christ was declaring himself to be a thief , for in Zanaki land thieves generally make it a practice to knock on the door of a hut which they hope to burglarise , and if they hear any movement inside , they dash off into the dark . |
| 29 | If they make any changes that 's where they should start . |
| 30 | Because , because then you do , exactly , if they make any noise , I 'd be like , will you shut up . |