Example sentences of "any [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It conjured up too many graphic images for her to reply with any semblance of iciness . |
| 2 | Like the GMC 's recommendations the deans ' suggestion may seem superficially attractive , but it too lacks any semblance of realism about how it might be implemented . |
| 3 | The leader of the small Social Democratic Party , Zardusht Ali Zade , had withdrawn as a presidential candidate on July 17 , as the opposition sought to deny the elections any semblance of legitimacy . |
| 4 | They proved to have no stomach for a fight with only Steve Regeling showing any semblance of spirit . |
| 5 | The enemy bowmen showered them with arrows , to break up any semblance of order ; and the English horsed might , charging downhill , everywhere overwhelmed the Scots leadership by sheer weight and impetus . |
| 6 | The only way they could get any semblance of acting was for Alex to speak a whole sentence , Michael to wait for the end , and then repeat it . |
| 7 | Nigel Vaughan did a passable impersonation of Liam Brady and Peter Reid for 35 minutes , but once he tired the home attacks lost any semblance of variety . |
| 8 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |
| 9 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 10 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 11 | but erm , I , I thought it was both yours and Mr contention that through the doctoring of extensible authority and by , because of that doctoring your clients are not alleging that any contracts of insurance or re-insurance simply made on their behalf is unenforceable |
| 12 | It is often difficult in retrospect , or even contemporaneously for that matter , to discern the part that psychic repression plays in any instance of homophobia . |
| 13 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
| 14 | Which ? has been in the information business for 33 years , but is still hampered by lack of any freedom of information legislation comparable with that in the United States . |
| 15 | Win/U reportedly needs only the Windows application 's source code , which is then recompiled and emerges running native on any brand of Unix under Motif . |
| 16 | Any scrap of intelligence regarding the approach of the steel , as the railhead is called , was devoured and discussed with keen delight . |
| 17 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 18 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
| 19 | But they could only wait and listen for any scrap of news . |
| 20 | Such liberalism seemed to fit into any climate , any mass of chart pulp . |
| 21 | Mr Sproat was not , he insisted , against the scheme from any reasons of philistinism , ‘ but I do not think this is the best way to encourage authors . |
| 22 | He was very preoccupied with religion and at any hour of day or night might summon Alvares for a religious discussion . |
| 23 | In his childhood he was introduced to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] ; in 1921 Eamon de Valera [ q.v. ] expressed gratitude for his ‘ ripe counsel … in any hour of need ’ . |
| 24 | This gives the kite flyers a precise notice of timing for making any change of direction . |
| 25 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 26 | Any change of direction becomes a retreat or a U-turn . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Socratic culture , shaken from two directions , has lost its self-confidence : witness its present obsession with novelty , coupled with a fear of any change of direction that would contradict its own premises . |
| 28 | At all times we have a sense of not being able to achieve any change of direction on how the European Community conducts its affairs . |
| 29 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 30 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |