Example sentences of "of [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than capable of handling any situation , she thought , while unobtrusively studying his athletic form and strong line of jaw . |
| 2 | One breed that seemed capable of handling any distraction was the Connemara and it was from that section that both Champion and Reserve came . |
| 3 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has persuaded the Gould Inc subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co Inc — which wanted to be shot of Encore altogether when it bought Gould , but has had to keep the company in the fold and bankroll it to have a chance of realising any value from it — to increase its revolving credit facility by $20m ; the pact also extends the maturity dates of Encore 's $50m term loan agreement to April 2 1995 , and the $35m increased revolving credit pact to July 3 1994 . |
| 4 | I see that someone terrified of using any woodworking tool involving the slightest of danger may be attracted by the SuperCut , and it might have potential for novices , but then what tool offers complete security ? |
| 5 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 6 | We are talking about costs and , as my hon. Friend will know , the cost of maintaining any aircraft , whether in the Royal Air Force or the reserves , is great , and I do not know how cost effective it would be . |
| 7 | If you do not get active and stay active , you 've got a snowball 's chance in hell of maintaining any weight loss . |
| 8 | Its tunnels were almost big enough for me to go down , and sticking my head down one , I had my first smell of badger — and , of course , completely ruined my chance of seeing any animals that day . |
| 9 | From the earliest possible age children should be appraised of this so that they know the importance of accepting any education offered them . |
| 10 | This would imply that any particular ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals which attempted to bypass or undermine the strength of the shop stewards should be resisted , but such particular resistance would be quite different from a total rejection of the supposedly malign effects of accepting any responsibility for the operation of enterprises under capitalism . |
| 11 | In some cases the algorithm will spread the addresses evenly over the allocated storage area , and in the ideal case will have an equal probability of generating any address within that area ; in other cases the existing key order can be used to improve the efficiency of record storage . |
| 12 | There is , of course , no question of allowing any trust to leave the national health service . |
| 13 | It is capable however , of being correct in its application to a case where the Food Controller had unlawfully demanded and received payment as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk . |
| 14 | Most publishers wo n't pay artists any money until a record has been released in a major market because the publisher has no other way of recouping any investment . |
| 15 | Not only did trader and master subvert that sense and render the victims of the Middle Passage ‘ incapable of deriving any benefit from Christianity ’ but slave trading and slavery were a context conducive to sinfulness by loosening constraints on passion . |
| 16 | In an effort to market Leapor 's poetry as that of a natural genius , the note to the first volume attempts to minimize her reading : ‘ Mrs. Leapor from a Child delighted in reading , and particularly Poetry , but had few Opportunities of procuring any Books of that kind ’ [ ML , 1 , p.i ] . |
| 17 | I do n't suppose you thought of bringing any booze home yourself . ’ |
| 18 | By thinking that everything is final — that it must pass your own " quality control " test — you greatly reduce the likelihood of producing any work at all . |
| 19 | Minimizing the cost of producing any output for a given level of effort E , subject to the production function , will yield a cost function C ( y , E ) . |
| 20 | Spanish agriculture was incapable of producing any surplus ; indeed , production had sunk to nineteenth-century levels . |
| 21 | The division has the important task of defeating any enemy breakthrough into the British Corps area and is equipped with the Army 's latest equipment , including the Warrior Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle . |
| 22 | It is because the law provides ways of changing the law and of adopting any law whatsoever , and it always claims authority for itself . |
| 23 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 24 | yes , but I was gon na say er , he would n't of come any way in the fog |
| 25 | DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE Bill Clinton wants to be President of the world 's only superpower — a nation capable of swatting any other off the globe at the push of a button . |
| 26 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , despite recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |
| 27 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , in spite of recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |
| 28 | To acknowledge this rule should thus have the double advantage of eliminating any appearance of royal partiality in selecting a Prime Minister on these occasions , and of ensuring that the parties obtain the leaders they want by the methods they want . |
| 29 | In any event , the rules should provide a means of resolving any impasse that does arise . |
| 30 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |