Example sentences of "[adv] any [noun sg] [prep] [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 | Being constantly self-critical provides no guarantee of truth nor necessarily any immunity from prejudice and error . |
| 3 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 4 | Er , obviously any Ministry of Defence er er contract is a soft touch as regarded by the supplier . |
| 5 | What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be . |
| 6 | So any increase in output will have to come from better farming methods , particularly in countries like India , whose rice farmers lag well behind Japan 's in productivity . |
| 7 | It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 12 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Scrub away any residue with water and a stiff brush . |
| 15 | United are 16th and still need the points to wash away any fear of relegation . |
| 16 | Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure . |
| 17 | I consider this to be substantially true , and particularly true of my own childhood , although in this case there was scarcely any need for translation . |
| 18 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 19 | This unexpected blow left the Big Five ( as the Cabinet Committee came to be called ) with scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He added , incautiously , ‘ There is hardly any aspect of policy today in which trade union leaders are not a brake on the wheel ’ . |
| 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 | ‘ That 's the point , ’ Joe called back now , ‘ I have to do so much reading I 've hardly any time for writing , at least not the kind I want to do . ’ |
| 25 | There was hardly any indication of opposition or censure . |
| 26 | Yes they 're dealt with same way there 's hardly any break between payment of salaries and onto superannuation . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | I weep for Barrow 's prospects were there conceivably any change in Government , because the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has said that the Opposition would replace a cancelled fourth boat with equivalent work only to be denounced by his own candidate in Barrow who used the words ’ ignorant and ill-informed ’ . |
| 29 | Hence any improvement in efficiency or availability of contraception will always drive down the birth-rate . |
| 30 | The Commission seemed willing to call on practically any explanation except pollution . |