Example sentences of "to any [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cogelow gouges do n't conform to any of the standard shapes or numbering systems . |
| 2 | But Mr Mills , who is now a director of Aspinwalls , an environment consultancy firm , goes on : ‘ Because of what I know , I would be perfectly content to live next to any of the plants we have . |
| 3 | He surprised the nation with the announcement , made in a radio and television broadcast on Saturday night , that his government has refused registration to any of the 13 political associations that applied for it . |
| 4 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 5 | But to any of the Hong Kong Chinese watching yesterday , Mr Kaufman and Mr Tebbit must look terribly alike . |
| 6 | If it now emerges that the Department of the Environment was over-generous to any of the water authorities last year , OFWAT has no choice but to live with the consequences . |
| 7 | If you 've been to any of the major house parties , you 'd know them by sight , if not by name . |
| 8 | It is an extraordinary fact that in 1954 the hero of a bestselling novel like Lucky Jim never once gets to the point of making love to any of the girls he pursues . |
| 9 | Mungo longed to be alone with the book ; to see if , between its stained purple bindings , it held a key to any of the mysteries perplexing him . |
| 10 | Do not add fat to any of the food ( except where we have specified it ) , and preferably omit salt too . |
| 11 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 12 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 13 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 14 | Gowie did n't turn up to any of the practices , did you ? ’ |
| 15 | Cretaceous birds are generally scarce , and some of the ‘ toothed ’ birds that are known , like the flightless , aquatic Hesperornis , seem to be difficult to relate to any of the living species . |
| 16 | As panel A of Fig. 3.2 shows , only the subjects pre-exposed to water showed neophobia ; pre-exposure to any of the other flavours produced generalized habituation of the neophobic response to saline . |
| 17 | Robbins now draws more and more attention to the text itself , by indulging in a dialogue with his projected reader to celebrate reaching his hundredth chapter or by rejecting the claims of traditional literary decorum : ‘ happily , your author is not under contract to any of the muses who supply the reputable writers , and thus he has access to a considerable variety of sentences to spread and stretch from margin to margin … ’ ( 124 ) . |
| 18 | If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms . |
| 19 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 20 | ‘ I really was n't exposed to any of the culture from the age of seven . |
| 21 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 22 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 23 | If you have answered ‘ yes ’ to any of the above , then you are still being dominated by your parents to some extent . |
| 24 | Such extensive managerial powers had not been built in to any of the LEA pilot schemes of financial delegation in existence before 1988 although schools ' experiences had often entailed a change in managerial approach ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 25 | Should the Secretary of State decide not to give effect to any of the recommendations he has received from the Council , he is required to publish a statement explaining his reasons . |
| 26 | Broadly this expression means any premises in which or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which , persons are employed in any process for or incidental to any of the purposes , outlined in s.175 of the Act , provided the work carried on there is part of a trade or for profit . |
| 27 | Applicants seeking admission to any of the following courses should use the University 's direct entry form : |
| 28 | a qualification considered by BTEC to be equivalent to any of the above . |
| 29 | A visit to any of the following Tourist Information Centres is highly recommended during your stay : |
| 30 | A visit to any of the properties in this leaflet will introduce you , at first hand , to many aspects of English history and reveal the extent of all that remains to be discovered . |