Example sentences of "that [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 2 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 3 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 4 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 5 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 6 | The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible . |
| 7 | Monique Javer also pulled a bad one out of the hat , and lost 6–1 , 6–0 to Fernandez with a performance that lacked any hint of a challenge . |
| 8 | As expected , he found no tell-tale clues that revealed any devices . |
| 9 | ‘ Did all that make any sense to you ? ’ |
| 10 | The unemployment figures demonstrate that Northern Ireland was the only part of the United Kingdom that experienced no increase in unemployment ; the Cambridge econometric forecast shows that last year it was the only region that experienced any growth , and that this year it is likely to be one of four regions that will experience growth . |
| 11 | Respectively they include device-independent device control protocols to enable heterogeneous video cassette recorders , laser disks and Compact Disk players to be integrated , a Japanese text-to-speech synthesiser necessary to phone-based data retrieval and TruVoice , a text-to-speech converter and an application programming interface that transforms any text passage into spoken English or Spanish . |
| 12 | Respectively they include device-independent device control protocols to enable heterogeneous VCRs , laser disks and CD players to be integrated , a Japanese text-to-speech synthesiser necessary to phone-based data retrieval and TruVoice , a text-to-speech converter and API interface that transforms any text passage into spoken English or Spanish . |
| 13 | In its Oct. 11 editorial The Hindu described the central government 's move as " an outrage on the Constitution that devalues any claim of the Janata Dal to higher democratic values and constitutional propriety " . |
| 14 | But is n't that exactly what these learned scholars do in every didactic essay that accompanies any CD of classical music ? |
| 15 | If not , is there anyone out there that has any parts like needles , ‘ pulled yard ’ , auxiliary rail and plate weights ( for use with the lace carriage ) , pattern cards or books , or maybe a shop or engineer that has one tucked away ? |
| 16 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 17 | ‘ No contract is alleged to have been made with or on behalf of the plaintiff , and no facts are averred that show any duty on the part of the defendants towards the plaintiff for breach of which an action could lie . |
| 18 | Chairman , erm , as I understand it this afternoon is , is a free vote and I , for that reason end there , I hope that persuade any waverers er one way , erm , at the moment we 've got agreements with tenants and it 's up to them to decide what to do with their land . |
| 19 | James winded ; his attacker sprawling over him punching , and thrusting with his thick trunk in a way that prevented any return blow . |
| 20 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 21 | His vision is a disconcerting one , his eyebeams shoot out , clear but solid room-dividers that slice any gathering , any grouping of people , into their listable characteristics . |
| 22 | Do not freeze an uncooked dish that includes any type of thawed frozen shellfish . |
| 23 | On returning to London , she patented a line-divider , a drawing device that allowed any line to be divided into any given number of equal parts . |
| 24 | But it was only about two shops that showed any signs of life . |
| 25 | There was only two of us that showed any interest at all in that and that was the guy that was working here , he was running the photography and myself . |
| 26 | Once appraised of the real facts , there was only one person that showed any opposition to flying taking place at the airfield . |
| 27 | The model assumes the existence of a mechanism ( a ‘ modulator ’ ) that detects any discrepancy between internal and external inputs , and , when the external input exceeds the internal , boosts the associability of the element to a degree proportional to the discrepancy . |
| 28 | It is almost a truism to say that the great danger for Christians is to become settlers and no longer to do anything that requires any risk . |
| 29 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 30 | Already , after the American War of Independence , Aranda had argued that to retain any sort of hold in America , Spain must abandon the old theory of Empire and set up local independent Bourbon thrones or even slough off Peru . ’ |