Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 2 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 3 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 5 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 6 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |
| 7 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 8 | ‘ How are the dear children ? ’ she asked Mrs Mitchell in a letter of 28 May , ‘ Do they appear to retain any recollections of papa and Mamma ? |
| 9 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 10 | Chris Waddle 's club , who this week took their spending for the season so far to £14 million by signing the Nantes player Didier Deschamps , have signed agreements with four players which give them priority should they wish to sign any of them . |
| 11 | They need to be reminded that this is a start-up situation so that they start to do any analysis in the context of all the information available . |
| 12 | They aim to prevent any person taking advantage of a tip ( insider knowledge ) provided by someone who is a primary insider , for example , a connected person , discussed above . |
| 13 | Though many genetic fluctuations do occur , most die out because they fail to confer any survival advantages on gut-dwelling microbes . |
| 14 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 15 | If they wish to cancel any of the rooms allocated they must do so within the time limit set by the hotel or they will be billed for them . |
| 16 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 17 | However , I will bring your letter to the attention of the parish council at their next meeting to see whether they wish to make any further contribution . |
| 18 | Also they refused to make any press statement on the study , and did not print sufficient copies of the report for adequate distribution on the pretext of financial difficulties , yet promptly hired a panel of consultants and academics to conduct a study of the Alliance 's study . |
| 19 | They 're they 're the eyes and ears of their boss and they have to report any political pressure so we have to find something for them to report basically . |
| 20 | Normally , when Ministers face the problem of leaked documents , they refuse to make any comment on the content of the document or , sometimes , on its existence . |
| 21 | ( viii ) Pupils should extend and refine their competence in drafting , redrafting , rereading and revising , and proof-reading and should learn to judge the extent to which they need to use any or all of these processes in specific pieces of work . |
| 22 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |
| 23 | Once they had made their inferences they tended to use any manpower they had to follow them up . |
| 24 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 25 | And erm erm the tailors would come when they wanted to do any pressing of seams , or anything , and they would take the goose iron , and put it in on of the , what we call press cloths , that we pressed the And then they would douse it in the bucket of water , to get it the right heat , to start , so a cloud of steam went up . |
| 26 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 27 | Are they planning to use any film or other material or props you and your spokesman should know about ? |