Example sentences of "any [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers ' committee on South Africa ( on which the UK was not represented ) , met in Abuja ( Nigeria ) on May 17 , agreeing that any move to lift sanctions was premature . |
| 2 | However , considerations of individual rationality induce workers in the ith market to reject any move to revise W i downwards . |
| 3 | Any further weakening of sterling , any further cut in base rates not sanctioned and sanitised by a cut in German interest rates , and any move to raise VAT in the Budget would all make higher inflation more likely . |
| 4 | The measures also outlaw — except in cases specifically approved by the government — any move to cut output of consumer goods , and place the railways in anarchic Soviet Transcaucasia under ‘ direct rule ’ by Moscow . |
| 5 | SCHOOLS can not be run like assembly lines , the National Union of Teachers says in a booklet being sent tobusiness executives to ask their help in opposing any move to pay teachers according to classroom performance . |
| 6 | Any move to isolate Britain from Europe would be ‘ extremely damaging ’ to Courtaulds and could reduce the size of our UK activities , he warned . |
| 7 | Courtaulds chief executive Sipko Huismans said any move to isolate Britain from continental Europe would be ‘ extremely damaging ’ to Courtaulds and could reduce the size of the Group 's UK activities . |
| 8 | Mr Fallon says any move to make Darlington a development area would create a wrong impression . |
| 9 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 10 | March 10 1990 OK , so the Australian Midnight Oil photo sesh did n't happen — but was there really any need to put Jack Barron 's noggin on the cover ? |
| 11 | There was never any need to explain things to him ( even if she had wanted to ) . |
| 12 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 13 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 14 | Still , there should n't be any need to let matters come to a head , not if you agree to be sensible and rectify your mistakes . ’ |
| 15 | The agreement was described by the Financial Times of May 16 as " designed to remove any need to raise taxes during the politically sensitive phase of completing reunification " . |
| 16 | To be able to sit in silence with his father , without any need to make conversation — so relaxed together that he can sit there licking his finger and wiping marks off the telephone ! |