Example sentences of "in any [noun sg] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose .
2 In any case one may well think that the sheer effort of dotting ‘ i's and crossing ‘ t's was draining .
3 It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did .
4 Perhaps he was wearing his customary flat cap and voluminous raincoat , but there is in any case something highly appropriate about this scene of forlornness and dampness ; the picture of Eliot in a prospect of drizzle evokes a quality in the man himself .
5 The title ‘ Head of the Secret Police ’ was in any case something of a misnomer .
6 In any case nobody wanted to reverse the process ; tobacco had been a pleasant commercial curtain-raiser but by the second half of the seventeenth century people in England were convinced that the real attraction of possessions overseas lay in the sugar islands .
7 And had it in any case anything to do with Francis Garland being shot through the head ?
8 There is in any event nothing in de la Broquière 's description to suggest that the grand caliph was not resident in Edirne .
9 In any garden one has to think of the practical as well as the more decorative elements and so a shed and compost area were included .
10 As Larry Lytle , the main spokesman for USL puts it : ‘ USL understands that it is naive to believe that in any merger nothing changes .
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