Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitton Wood Designs will build any style of kitchen using any wood you choose . |
| 2 | If the Ministry of Defence had any use for it , it would n't have been sold . |
| 3 | Mr Ferrucci denied that the continued dispute over the safety of asbestos had any part in the company 's decision to close the factory , though he admitted that the environmental difficulties experienced were ‘ more severe ’ than Raybestos had expected , and no other Raybestos Manhattan factories were being closed down . |
| 4 | The builder can of course withhold any payment or retention outstanding , but this will probably not offset the cost of delay and disturbance in locating an alternative sub-contractor . |
| 5 | We would very much like to have you to teach us ( but would of course welcome any trainer that you 'd propose in your place if you 're already busy that weekend ) . |
| 6 | The Queen , without of course receiving any advice from the outgoing prime minister , sends for the leader of the successful party . |
| 7 | Well I , it 's difficult of course to look any distance ahead , er against the background of what 's happening in the Gulf . |
| 8 | for him years of struggle to get any influence to finally find himself |
| 9 | It was claimed in 1721 that more than 7,000 journeymen had : … lately entered into a combination to raise their wages , and leave off working an hour sooner than they used to do ; and for the better carrying on their design , have subscribed their respective names in books … at the several houses of call or resort ( being public houses in and about London ) where they use ; and collect several considerable sums of money to defend any prosecutions against them . |
| 10 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 11 | The ambiguity in Soviet interpretations of the 1931 treaty partly derived from Article 6 which permitted both parties full freedom of action to establish any relations and alliances with third parties provided that such links do not contradict the other provisions of the treaty . |
| 12 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 13 | An unbroken plain of white stretched to the far horizon , only the faintest shadings of light indicating any variation in the almost dead flat land . |
| 14 | It is important to note here that its terms of reference precluded any consideration of the moral basis of either of the two areas to be investigated . |
| 15 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 16 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 17 | Even where documents are available , historians need a lot of imagination to reconstruct any kind of Carolingian site . |
| 18 | Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible . |
| 19 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 20 | On this ‘ scientific ’ view of standard setting , the design of consents to discharge polluted water is to be based on a dispassionate consideration of the amount and kind of pollution load any watercourse can bear . |
| 21 | Thus it is only in cases of debate about the reasonableness of costs incurred that the different bases of taxation produce any difference in the actual costs received . |
| 22 | Mr Taylor denies that the question of race had any bearing on his decision . |
| 23 | Note that where directions or rules of court require any action to be taken within a period of seven days or less , only business days need be taken into account . |
| 24 | ‘ He said that if the Ministry of Education had any guts , they would refuse to recognize it , ’ pursued Pickerage . |
| 25 | Tufte introduces the idea of data-ink to describe any part of a graphic that conveys measured quantities by , for instance , position on the page , by length , or by the word or numerals it forms . |
| 26 | The analysis of the magnitude of the increase of basal intraoesophageal pressure produced by the common cavity and the percentage of time that the stomach was in pressure communication with the oesophageal lumen were attempts to determine whether intensity of distention had any bearing on the triggering of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 27 | No item of furniture matched any other . |
| 28 | The thought of Reni sending any sort of word to him amused Huy ; but the boy continued to look at him seriously . |
| 29 | It grieved Ramsey all his life that Milner-White of King 's , whom he so admired , refused out of diffidence to play any part whatever in the work of theology . |
| 30 | Because of high fixed costs as a proportion of total costs any reductions of a hotel 's turnover , however small , are likely to lead to proportionately larger profit reductions . |