Example sentences of "[adv] any [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions .
2 Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people .
3 Er , obviously any Ministry of Defence er er contract is a soft touch as regarded by the supplier .
4 What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be .
5 It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous .
6 However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time .
7 For a physicalist , a mode of access is just a physical process , so any mode of access V enjoys should , if physicalism be true , be available to BS .
8 They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account .
9 Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth .
10 There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters .
11 What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ?
12 United are 16th and still need the points to wash away any fear of relegation .
13 There were scarcely any towns of significance near Poltava .
14 If the hon. Gentleman had showed even a tiny amount of the indignation that he expresses about empty houses in Swindon in relation to all those in areas under Labour control , there would be scarcely any problems of homelessness in Britain .
15 Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure .
16 Where there ever any breaches of security ?
17 Bravely brushing aside any question of taste , Mementos invites customers to send in their champagne corks for dipping in silver or gold , ‘ transforming them into wonderful mementos of happy occasions ’ .
18 Other idioms may be based on melody of widely different kinds , spanning from almost traditional thematic characteristics to melody which has hardly any element of tradition .
19 But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure .
20 There are hardly any reports of home sickness and many accounts of how the children cried bitterly when they were removed by their parents .
21 He added , incautiously , ‘ There is hardly any aspect of policy today in which trade union leaders are not a brake on the wheel ’ .
22 He said that there were " hardly any points of convergence between the ANC and the government " and in this context face-to-face talks were unacceptable .
23 That may cover almost anything , indeed F W Maitland said that ‘ there is hardly any department of law which does not , at one time or another , become of constitutional importance . ’
24 There was hardly any indication of opposition or censure .
25 From that time there is hardly any form of diet that has not been recommended , such as carbohydrate diet ( fruit , purée of potatoes or tomatoes ) , beef steak cure , milk diet ( 2–2.5 l/day ) .
26 Clearly any case of soil erosion must be the result of this interaction and any ceteris paribus assumption about these physical parameters would be absurd .
27 It was up to her to get herself and the twins out of here , back to the safety of their apartment — and clearly any display of outrage or temperament was only going to delay matters .
28 MV That is the and , of course , it was n't really any kind of socialism .
29 And for that reason I do n't believe this is really any form of constraint on new development which could obviously be built with er appropriate foundations to absorb the very slight movement that takes place when undermining occurs .
30 Now any kind of love is rejected except the love of the poet .
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