Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 2 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 3 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 4 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 5 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 6 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 7 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 8 | It defines the project timescales and priority to enable individual workloads within the group to be planned through DOPACS , and it also important n needed-by dates , the milestones , within the project , which again through DOPACS enables checks on the physical and financial progress to be carried out at any time . |
| 9 | With the insertion of implants it could be carried out at any age , but the sensible option would be prophylactic mastectomy either at the completion of her family or at the menopause . ’ |
| 10 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 11 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 12 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 13 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 14 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 15 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 16 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 17 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 18 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 19 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 20 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 21 | The problem with price limits , of course , is that futures contracts are rendered completely illiquid : a position can not be closed out at any price when trading is suspended . |
| 22 | ( To reduce the risk of over-speeding with modern machines , the airbrakes can be opened fully at any time during the spin or the recovery . ) |
| 23 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 24 | I could be called in at any moment . |
| 25 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 26 | Well , is it , you mean technology has n't affected your job to such an extent that you feel that you know you could get laid off at any minute if they bring in something new ? |
| 27 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 28 | In many missionary fields these days , political and economic upheaval can result in the missionary being driven out at any time . |
| 29 | The network topology is such that new file-servers can be plugged in at any time should the need arise . |
| 30 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |