Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Trazior , some of the mountainous stalagmitic hives of Necromunda were wholly disconnected from any neighbour , isolated across immense metallic dunes of glittering despair , across seas of eerie chemical sludge . |
| 2 | There is nothing ins intrinsically long with the concept of Percent for Art , but we saw an opportunity to extend that concept to make sure that the real need of real people in real communities were properly reflected in any scheme . |
| 3 | Isolated teeth were little damaged by any of the sediment types . |
| 4 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 5 | On the procedural side , 9,808 people were arrested in connection with the strike in England and Wales , but nearly one in five of these were not charged with any offence . |
| 6 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 7 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 8 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 9 | Parietal cell and intrinsic factor blocking antibodies were not detected in any subject with atrophy . |
| 10 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 11 | Their standard British Army issue tin helmets were not fitted with any kind of visor to protect against stones and other missiles . |
| 12 | In a free market , all schools would be able to operate quality control on their raw material in this way , and it would not be long before some children were not wanted by any school because they were ‘ poor examination material ’ . |
| 13 | To put the matter another way , we might say that the beginnings of humans society were traumatic — that is , that they were occasioned by an overwhelmingly powerful and unexpected event for which our ancestors were not prepared by any instinctual responses of an automatic sort and which left long-lasting and indeed indelible effects on the human psyche . |
| 14 | But it can hardly be overemphasized that the new images were not constructed in any artificial , mechanistic sense , separate , as it were , from attitudes and real social relationships on the one hand and , on the other , the economic and political structures of society . |
| 15 | On the other hand in the fact that they were not limited by any central representative institutions , and that they based their power largely on their armies and bureaucracies , they were in the main stream of continental absolutism . |
| 16 | Yet the permanent achievements of her reign were not surpassed by any other ruler of the age . |
| 17 | These sketches were not collected in any lifetime edition of CD 's works . |
| 18 | These sketches were not collected in any lifetime edition of CD 's works . |
| 19 | The British also conquered the island of Newfoundland , and were not faced by any such problems there . |
| 20 | But the first two pairs were on adjacent lanes three and four and so were not affected by any inequality in the lanes . |
| 21 | TNC consists of government proposals but these were not preceded by any kind of inquiry or the involvement of professional educationists or practitioners . |
| 22 | In addition , while they were not restricted to any one social class , they did develop a clear sense of identity , fostered by a number of distinctive badges , such as their preference for Christian names of an Old Testament origin or of their own elaborate and didactic construction , such as Sin-deny , Be-Thankful , Praise-God , and Sure-Trust . |
| 23 | They were not derived from any significant analysis of aims or objectives in relation to the development of learners , nor based on a sufficiency of basic knowledge about the pupils and teachers and schools who would have to use them . |
| 24 | The provisions of the Mental Health Acts were not considered in any detail in the course of the argument . |
| 25 | In my judgment , the plain meaning of article 9 , viewed against the historical background in which it was enacted , was to ensure that Members of Parliament were not subjected to any penalty , civil or criminal for what they said and were able , contrary to the previous assertions of the Stuart monarchy , to discuss what they , as opposed to the monarch , chose to have discussed . |
| 26 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 27 | If the depreciation charges were not controlled in any way , then this would mean that local authorities could do one of three things : |
| 28 | Even those pupils who were not entered for any examination have suffered , because teachers have got into a habit of teaching in a particular way , and find it hard to break away from it . |
| 29 | We were not working to any specific set of criteria . ’ |
| 30 | This was a difficult doctrine to establish , particularly since it was pointed out that my own activities were not remunerated in any such way ; but nevertheless I found an impossible inconsistency in remaining an adviser to a profession that outraged this important principle . |