Example sentences of "it [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 32 | The scrum has also looked solid enough to date , although no side has really put it under any pressure yet . |
| 33 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 34 | TENDERISE tough meat by marinating it in any kind of citrus juice or by spooning juice over the meat after piercing it with a fork . |
| 35 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 36 | Curiously , perhaps the only advice to be given is : cultivate it in any field you like , in sport , in dancing , in singing , in telling dirty stories , and what you learn there will mysteriously invade any other field in which timing is important , unless some mental block prevents it . |
| 37 | And now Kenco is leading the market by introducing a new dimension to its coffee — it is now a single grind , which means you can use it in any type of coffee-making system without any loss of taste or quality . |
| 38 | Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the Government — without announcing it in any manifesto — have increased national insurance charges by 40 per cent ? |
| 39 | You can tilt it in any direction , and measure the genetic distance , and hence the minimum evolution time , between any point on the plane and any other ( annoyingly , that is not quite true on the page , because the computer 's printer distorts proportions , but this effect is too trivial to make a fuss about , although it does mean that you will get slightly the wrong answer if you simply count blips on the scale ) . |
| 40 | You can interpret it in any way you like — it could mean the best groomed , it could refer to canine coats , attractive collars and leads . |
| 41 | We do not tie the horse , blindfold it , or forcefully restrain it in any way . |
| 42 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 43 | It can be argued that it is a citizen 's right to be free to collect information about whatever and whoever he likes and to do it in any way which is not intrusive or injurious . |
| 44 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 45 | A Firstly , I am assuming you have not damaged it in any way ? |
| 46 | I accepted all of this without thinking it in any way unusual , even though my father used to boast about Billy 's achievements as if they were a matter for civic pride . |
| 47 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 48 | Hadley acknowledges there is a possibility that opportunities may arise to represent Japan at international level but stresses that he would not consider selection if it in any way jeopardized his standing with the Canadian Rugby Union . |
| 49 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 50 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 51 | Is it in any way relevant that the person required to make discovery , or a document , is outside the jurisdiction ? |
| 52 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 53 | Anna decided that she must not profit by it in any way and consulted Constanza — she always did : You are my chief heir and it will affect you — Constanza told her to go ahead . |
| 54 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 55 | So have you ever , in terms of the crime , have you ever been affected by it in any way |
| 56 | It was too much to ask her boss , a creature of the system , to challenge it in any way . |
| 57 | Mr. Win : Unlike Conservative Members , I am an admirer of the SDA and I am not attacking it in any way . |
| 58 | I would be happy for you to use it in any way you felt appropriate . |
| 59 | Suppose that a newspaper advertises : ‘ We want letters ( which we may publish ) from readers seeking advice ; and we undertake that , if we give advice , we will exercise all proper care.a Is it in any way artificial or unrealistic to regard that as an offer of a contract ? |
| 60 | You will see that each of the four principles of the Standard is accompanied by a number of indicators which stem directly from the Standard but do not go beyond it in any way . |