Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 What attracts many scientists to this hypothesis is that those perturbations of the orbits of Neptune and Pluto have yet to be explained satisfactorily in any other way .
2 It also had two spiralling horns which could be pointed independently in any direction — a tremendous advantage in a battle .
3 It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation .
4 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 .
5 The wrongfully convicted prisoner will be treated identically to any other prisoner by prison officers .
6 Once traced , of course , the image can be manipulated just like any other set of anchor points and curves .
7 Once accepted by the employee he will be discharged forthwith from any contractual duties including compliance with the restraint of trade clause ( see General Billposting v Atkinson [ 1909 ] AC 118 ) .
8 Rather , it is due to a complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic factors , which are not unique to the tropics and which have to be resolved individually for any particular forest . ’
9 Left-over cold meat from a joint may also be added together with any vegetables that are to hand when you add the salame .
10 The analysis of the expenses of production of a commodity might be carried backward to any length ; but it is seldom worth while to go back very far .
11 They imply that the state — and groups within it — have their own interests which may be pursued separately from any changes in the structures of British capitalism .
12 ( b ) Cross-appeal A respondent who wishes to contend : ( i ) that the decision of the court below should be varied either in any event or in the event of the appeal being allowed in whole or in part ; or ( ii ) that the decision of the court below should be affirmed but on different grounds ; or ( iii ) that the decision was wrong in whole or part must file and serve on all parties , within 14 days of receiving notice of appeal , a written notice setting out the grounds on which he relies .
13 The condition , that allows the application of attributes solely to assemblies , provides a mechanism whereby a simplification in the relationships may be applied both at any early or late stage in a design .
14 The strength of political opposition , perhaps underground , must be ascertained together with any past or potential conflicts involving minority , religious or ethnic groups .
15 It will be seen from the text of the section that it does not require a Letter of Request to be issued ; an application may be made directly by any interested person , a litigant , a foreign government official , or a prosecutor such as the English Director of Public Prosecutions .
16 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 .
17 History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility .
18 Notwithstanding these restrictions , Basque officials are confident that the quality of the art works that will be transferred to Bilbao will be guaranteed by clauses in the agreement , and by the fact that , due to a lack of space in the New York Museum , only about one-seventh of the total Solomon Guggenheim collection can ever be exhibited there at any one time .
19 The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad .
20 The first of these objections to the Baker — Hacker interpretation can be answered by saying that although the practice which constitutes knowing and following the rule for pain could be operated away from any community ( on a desert island ) if it could be set up , the problem is not in the operation but in the institution of the practice .
21 Such factors , however , will be felt instinctively by any student with musicianship , and there is no need to quote such text-book rules as : ‘ Tunes will consist of two phrases .
22 But as Matza 's quotation makes clear , its absence can be felt regardless of any formal attempt to withdraw it .
23 They , they know what they have to do to protect that stock , to protect their life 's interests and they , and they know they do n't need to be told really by any officer here who are not in that not , not in that game , what they have to do that 's what they 're asking us to do and they certainly asked us to do that on the erm , on the tour of county farms that we had only , only a few weeks ago .
24 Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) .
25 3 Drills can often be performed well without any attention being paid to the structure or meaning .
26 They can thus be sold just like any other piece of consumer equipment , for instance through stores such as Sears Roebuck or J. C. Penney in the US or W. H. Smith in Britain .
27 Others who were present held that the altar could be used again without any reconsecration , after a simple ceremony of reconciliation .
28 The University Card can be used exactly like any other credit card , in particular the card is currently free for the first six months .
29 Without going into any further detail it can be concluded that prey composition must be used cautiously in any attempt to identify predators by their prey assemblages .
30 ( 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 . )
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