Example sentences of "[vb past] any [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods . |
| 2 | By contrast , the 1987 intake included a mere nineteen MPs who were farmers or landowners , and only twenty-four who listed any kind of field sports as a recreation , a far cry from the party of thirty years earlier . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 4 | None of these cases , however , involved any charge over property . |
| 5 | Even if this were so , the implication has been made by catholic school supporters that catholic schools have not promoted or reinforced any measure of prejudice , and that no other possible type of school could improve on them ( Daly 1975 ) . |
| 6 | Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment . |
| 7 | It was noteworthy that for the overall group of schools involved in the survey , few reported any involvement by school boards in problems of attendance or in improving attendance . |
| 8 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 9 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 10 | This was inevitably rejected by the Catholic SDLP as perpetuating Protestant rule in Ulster , while the Paisleyite Unionists condemned any form of power-sharing with the ‘ Papists ’ . |
| 11 | The President of the Bophuthatswana homeland , Lucas Mangope , on Dec. 6 rejected any idea of re-incorporation into South Africa . |
| 12 | TAOISEACH Albert Reynolds today rejected any reintroduction of internment , in the wake of the latest terrorist murders this week . |
| 13 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |
| 14 | The Bolsheviks clung to Tambov town and prevented any contact with Makhno to the south in the Ukraine , or with Sapozhkov , another peasant rebel , on the Volga . |
| 15 | All of this has a distinctly Diceyesque ring , for in the introduction to the 1913 edition of his Law and Public Opinion Dicey portrayed any extension of state activity as ‘ socialist ’ , and denounced the welfare collectivism of the ‘ new liberalism ’ as an attempt to ‘ bribe ’ the electorate with state benefits . |
| 16 | Mother would not permit my brothers to impart a slap on my face or bottom , as she abhorred any display of violence . |
| 17 | Thus , a litigant who claimed any form of injunction had an unfettered right of appeal . |
| 18 | I remained out , standing with my ear to the door , for Carl detested any form of interruption . |
| 19 | Not that his tautly muscled frame showed any sign of laxity , she admitted in silent acknowledgement . |
| 20 | My final term there seemed rather uneventful after the previous two , and only Renaissance Anne showed any signs of concern about my impending departure . |
| 21 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 22 | Only the VG-30R showed any signs of congestion ; on little brother all the tunes breathed easily . |
| 23 | But it was only about two shops that showed any signs of life . |
| 24 | The absence of Arundel and Huntingdon is especially interesting since both were only in their mid-thirties and neither showed any signs of infirmity in their subsequent military careers . |
| 25 | With stimulation of corresponding regions of cortex in the right hemisphere only one out of 14 right handers showed any effect of stimulation and none showed post-operative aphasia . |
| 26 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 27 | No grouping of the patients according to symptoms or the presence or absence of neurological deficit showed any difference in incidence of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 28 | Once appraised of the real facts , there was only one person that showed any opposition to flying taking place at the airfield . |
| 29 | It was the only chemical from all those which showed any potential for cancer treatment . |
| 30 | So do you , do you think erm this , this sort of movement towards the er cities and urban centres , this sort of gravity focus , do you think that indicated any sort of error sort of thing in , in land reforms ? |