Example sentences of "to be [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prefer not to be under any obligation to you . ’ |
| 2 | He did n't look to be under any pressure at all . |
| 3 | As a consequence , although a company might have more or less orders at any one time , it is less likely to be without any orders than the one-man operation which can contract to only one customer at any one time . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 5 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |
| 6 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 7 | Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’ |
| 8 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 9 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 10 | When receiving professional aromatherapy treatment-especially aromatherapy massage — it is important to feel at ease with your therapist if it is to be of any worth . |
| 11 | By then it is too late to be of any good to anyone , and particularly dad . |
| 12 | These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use . |
| 13 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 14 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 15 | There can not be a satisfactory answer to such a question which is short enough for the circumstances , and informative enough to be of any value . |
| 16 | To be of any use as a tool of business control , financial records must be up-to-date . |
| 17 | Her cousin Elizabeth of Dorking 's £20 legacy was to arrive just too late to be of any comfort to her , and she died in the September , aged sixty-five . |
| 18 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 19 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 20 | And , if specific hypothetical examples of such computations are to be of any interest to students of biological organisms , they should be able to distinguish reliably ( though not necessarily infallibly ) between equivalent changes in the real-world environment . |
| 21 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 22 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 23 | Editor , — If operative mortality is to be of any use as an indicator of quality in cardiac surgery a system of risk stratification must be in place . |
| 24 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 25 | The eye-spots , to be of any use , must be linked to muscles so that the animal can react to what it senses . |
| 26 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 27 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 28 | The ownership of archaeological finds depends on the local laws ( in some countries all archaeological artefacts are automatically the property of the state and have to be reported , while in others the finds belong to the owner of the land on which they were found ) , but whatever the ownership , each find needs to be properly recorded if it is to be of any use archaeologically . |
| 29 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is only in such cases that reference to Hansard is likely to be of any assistance to the courts . |