Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Would the acoustic signal contain any evidence anyway or does the speaker just talk like that ? |
| 6 | All the Contracts are valid and binding and in full force and effect and neither the Vendor nor any other party to any such Contract has breached any provisions of or is in default under the terms of any such Contract . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 9 | He propped his right elbow on the table and rested his chin on the cupped hand — the pose of a football manager pondering how to redeploy his players when neither side has shown any likelihood of scoring a goal . |
| 10 | And she was aware that the same thought had occurred to him as he observed , ‘ If your own car has suffered any damage in the incident , I 'm afraid it 's rather hard to identify . |
| 11 | None of the members of the Russian delegation has given any ground for premature celebration . |
| 12 | University college has denied any link with a racist newsletter circulating in the North-East . |
| 13 | Whilst this court should always be quick to identify and condemn any departure from the proper procedures , the interests of the victim and of maintaining the authority of the courts require that in deciding what use to make of its powers under section 13(3) of the Act of 1960 , this court should ask itself whether , notwithstanding such a departure , the contemnor has suffered any injustice . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | WARRANTY : Name Origin Research undertake to research any surname and to provide such information as is available by proven research . |
| 16 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm frightened of horses — but I was aware of all the rumours about me being ‘ difficult ’ to work with , so I got on the horse to avoid causing any problems . |
| 18 | Used loosely and liberally , the term seems to cover any book either written for children or taken by children before about 1900 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally we asked teachers if their school or department had undertaken any kind of SSE exercise without using the Solihull booklet . |
| 23 | The sales department refused to accept any cars from the factory which did not meet rigid quality guidelines . |
| 24 | In the second place , the analogy fails to make any distinction between the way bodies behave and the way inanimate objects behave . |
| 25 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 26 | And then granddad 's got any videos , . |
| 27 | THE Irish Coursing Club have scuppered any idea of interfering with Dunmore |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Northern Echo revealed last month that Darlington council failed to give any money to celebrate the anniversary of North Road railway station . |
| 30 | As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies . |