Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
| 2 | First , if a credit granter refuses credit , he has to name any bureau used without being asked by the consumer . |
| 3 | Characteristically , he refuses to make any secret of his work with Brown , whose Olympic drugs ban has one more year to run ; nor , in loyal fashion , does he have any doubts that Brown will return to competition and go straight to the top . |
| 4 | ‘ In the normal course of events these things take time under French law , and they 're likely to take even longer in this case because he refuses to make any move whatever until you are actually there — in France . ’ |
| 5 | Mr. Stern : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he intends to make any proposals to alleviate the impact on the ports of south Wales of proposed barrage schemes . |
| 6 | To use environmental analysis as a special intelligence source for top managers is perhaps the single most common reason why it ceases to have any effect on decisions … . |
| 7 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 8 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 9 | Conservatives have even learnt to love the deficit : it helps to resist any movement towards an increased government share in the economy . |
| 10 | Warwick Collins points out that the keel design not only has a distinct draught advantage over a fin keel , but also claims that it helps to damp any pitching motion in a seaway . |
| 11 | This message from his old comrade who faced the whizzbangs in the frontline trench obviously moves the birthday boy , though you sense he tries to hide any emotion . |
| 12 | The same feeling of brooding menace wells up on his version of Presley 's ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ , only he decides to leave any anger on hold and transforms the rock ‘ n ’ roll classic into a haunting ballad that sounds as though it came from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe rather than that of Axton , Durden and Presley . |
| 13 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 14 | He seeks to deflect any charges of overspecialization and methodological inadequacy by means of an appeal to the " traditional values " of literature and the " primary of the text " for English studies . |
| 15 | ‘ To ask the Chancellor whether he proposes to take any action to counter the growing practice by companies of granting shareholders the option to receive dividends in the form of stock instead of cash , so enabling some shareholders to obtain a tax advantage . ’ |
| 16 | Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation . |
| 17 | It monitors the activity of banks , which are required to submit monthly reports to it , and it attempts to spot any bank that is likely to face difficulties . |