Example sentences of "[adv] any [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were scarcely any towns of significance near Poltava . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Where there ever any breaches of security ? |
| 4 | But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure . |
| 5 | There are hardly any reports of home sickness and many accounts of how the children cried bitterly when they were removed by their parents . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Towards the end of 1988 many people were asking : Are there still any buildings at risk ? |
| 8 | The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time . |
| 9 | The most familiar of these are in the areas of physical access and transportation , but in almost any aspects of life an impaired person is likely to confront a disabling dimension . |
| 10 | In the 1950s it was only occasionally activated , with nominal headquarters in London ; and indeed any proposals on defence that emanated from its Consultative Assembly were invariably ignored by the member governments . |
| 11 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 12 | Climate and diet have a considerable effect upon maturation , as for example the work of Weiner & Thambipillai ( 1952 ) on West Africa children suggests , and therefore any estimates of life-expectancy in earlier populations must be accepted with reserve . |
| 13 | I have always made it clear that I take seriously any allegations of misbehaviour in any children 's home in Wales . |