Example sentences of "[to-vb] any [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank Rate was the rate at which discount houses could borrow from the Bank in order to meet any shortage of liquidity . |
| 2 | Well-bribed assassins — my uncle s creatures I doubt not — were marking my every move , ready to meet any show of force with greater force . |
| 3 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 4 | Mr. Beazley submitted that the court 's decision in paragraphs 17 and 18 of the judgment , which is also reflected in the answer given to the question in the court 's ruling , is conclusive in his favour and determinative of the construction of article 5(3) ; and that in consequence articles 5(1) and 5(3) are to be construed as mutually exclusive , but as all-embracing so far as actions to establish any kind of liability of the defendants are concerned . |
| 5 | Orr 's article provides a good summary of the problems faced in trying to establish any form of benefit . |
| 6 | Some vineyards may not be mentioned because they have only recently been cultivated and , therefore , have not been in production long enough to establish any sort of reputation . |
| 7 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 8 | The fact that believing in God involves an acceptance of uncertainty does not allow us to accept any degree of uncertainty , or that trust will also be misplaced . |
| 9 | It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact . |
| 10 | However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation . |
| 11 | Coetzer must draw that sting to stand any chance of survival on Saturday . |
| 12 | But it is n't customary to stand any dish of porridge on a table out of reach . ’ |
| 13 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 14 | For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money . |
| 15 | Mr Foster also called on the region 's chairman Peter Carr to issue a statement clarifying the position , adding : ‘ So far the NRH has failed to provide any kind of explanation or issue any credible public statement . |
| 16 | Yet , until very recently , the local health authority made no attempt to provide any kind of rehabilitation for their former patient . |
| 17 | Headphones listening splits the left/right signals too dramatically and , for most people , fails to provide any sense of space in the frontal ‘ cone ’ . |
| 18 | There is no requirement in the UK for colleges to provide any sort of support for deaf students . |
| 19 | The only one of the sources to provide any sort of basis for Husameddin 's statement , however , appears to be Ibn Taghribirdi , who seems to say that when he [ Molla Fenari ] stayed in Cairo , his son prayed the tarawih ( a Ramadan prayer ) in the medrese of al-Zayni " Abd al-Basit b . |
| 20 | Professional guidance has , perhaps of necessity , made no attempt to provide any form of quantification other than the requirement that the auditor should be reasonably satisfied that the going concern basis is appropriate . |
| 21 | The term ‘ fuel pump ’ is intended to encompass any type of pump used to dispense fuel for use in vehicles . |
| 22 | ‘ Three or four days , ’ I said hopefully , trying to hide any element of self-doubt . |
| 23 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 24 | As an extreme example , in mercury , with Pr=0·025 , it is difficult to observe any form of convection other than turbulent . |
| 25 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 26 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 27 | Lateral and medial stabilisers are incorporated on to the outsole to prevent rollover while the design features a flex notch , which has been cut into the outsole to counter any restriction of movement . |
| 28 | The Grancourt Gstaad features a flex notch to counter any restriction of movement |
| 29 | The proposals included the far-sighted proposals to amend the Legal Aid Regulations , so as to show the Bar 's determination that public funds should be efficiently used ; also to counter any suggestion of abuse of public funds by the Bar . |
| 30 | It is worth remembering that water can be used to douse any kind of fire except a fat fire or a fire involving electrical equipment . |