Example sentences of "but [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors heard that Homesmith had a good self-build record , but agreed any contract should be put out to tender at a later stage . |
| 2 | Other members of the class , because of their upbringing , may accept intellectually the beliefs of their own religious community , but lack any confirmation from their experience . |
| 3 | But pick any street and the curse of unemployment lurks behind the front doors . |
| 4 | But forget any notion you might have that sisterhood land secretaries ) are powerful . |
| 5 | John could see some trivial improvements but deferred any mention of them . |
| 6 | It promised to discuss issues including better economic performance , ‘ democratic togetherness ’ , better goods , opportunities to travel and a healthy environment , but rejected any idea of reforming the system . |
| 7 | He was a fervent high-churchman but abhorred any association between the high-church wing of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 8 | ‘ He does n't draw any state benefits but gets any money he can by begging and borrowing and occasionally busking , ’ he said . |
| 9 | This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose . |
| 10 | Most importantly , section 98 of the Children Act withdraws the right to silence in proceedings for care , supervision or child protection under the Act , but disqualifies any admission made here from being used as evidence in criminal prosecution . |
| 11 | ‘ The League has a duty to support and encourage every club but lending any club money is clearly outside its remit . ’ |
| 12 | If the patient complains of urgency and urge incontinence but denies any stress incontinence ; if the history and examination yield no other abnormal features ; and if the urine tests negative for protein , glucose , red cells , white cells , and micro-organisms then detrusor instability is the likely diagnosis and the patient should be treated accordingly . |
| 13 | If she complains of stress incontinence but denies any urgency or urge incontinence her doctor can safely assume that she has genuine stress incontinence . |
| 14 | Greenslade was dismissed from his Mirror post after barely a year , but denies any trace of sour grapes . |
| 15 | This unusual hybrid , together with the Scandinavian tag , has given him an obscure appeal in the States , but denies any connection with the Nordic beat : ‘ Things are happening in Sweden now , yes . |
| 16 | A better solution ( common to all modern computers ) is to allow the control unit to continue with subsequent instructions as before , but to allow any transput unit to interrupt the control unit when an operation is complete . |
| 17 | Madame could not help but admire any woman who had gained access to enough money , either early or late in her career , to be able to laugh and to leave people . |
| 18 | George and Ringo sided with John and Klein launched into a ruthless purge , clearing out the parasites and the dead wood — but consigning any trace of idealism to the trash can as well . |
| 19 | Movement is always hard to assess at this age , but avoid any puppy who moves erratically or is obviously lame ! |
| 20 | There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money-back guarantee . |
| 21 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 22 | Nothing difficult is attempted — eg only five different atoms are used — but banish any thought of triviality , because with the cubes shown in Fig. 1 we introduce children to five themes that they may study all their lives . |
| 23 | He could borrow enough to buy an asset in the cash market , hold on to it for T years ( earning any income but bearing any carrying costs including interest on borrowed funds involved ) , and then sell it in the cash market and also repay the loan with interest . |
| 24 | Interviewed on television on Nov. 21 , the South Korean Defence Minister , Lee Jong-koo , said that the two sides had agreed on " considerably intensified measures " to halt the North 's nuclear programme but denied any plan to use military force . |
| 25 | He admitted taking his hand off the tiller at the group but denied any boardroom rift over strategy . |
| 26 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 27 | Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small . |
| 28 | He appeared against John Penruddock [ q.v. ] and his rebels in 1655 , but refused any office under Oliver Cromwell , and was badly beaten in the 1656 elections . |
| 29 | ‘ People who do this sort of thing should not only lose their jobs but have any money they make from the deal confiscated , ’ she said . |