Example sentences of "[vb pp] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defense officials say they have not yet forbidden any publication , but insist that they possess the power to do so if they choose . |
| 2 | Thus a secret US State Department memorandum could refer explicitly to " a special relationship " ( Acheson was reputed to have forbidden any such admission of this kind on paper ) which should exist with Britain for the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 3 | Although Wilfrid did evangelise Mercia and founded a site at Oundle in Northamptonshire , it is probable the reference is to another Stamford , as the name was not uncommon and Alchfrith is unlikely to have owned any land in this area . |
| 4 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 5 | ( iii ) been a director or member of or a beneficial owner of any share in a recognised body which directly or indirectly owned any share in another recognised body which held or received clients ' money ; |
| 6 | Why should SPUC 's concern for the conceptus be deemed any less legitimate ? |
| 7 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 8 | Officers have recommended any development on the land , which is in the Sadberge conservation area , should make a ‘ positive contribution ’ to the village character . |
| 9 | Whether it was the Vietminh , the Binh Xuyen , or , most likely , Trotskyists , who were responsible , it obviously shattered any confidence that the restoration of French power could be achieved without such savage resistance . |
| 10 | There were others , but Lucy never disclosed any of them to us . ’ |
| 11 | He assured me he had n't mentioned the glass to anyone , had n't dropped any hints . |
| 12 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 13 | The police had dropped any action , following their March 1967 raid , by June . |
| 14 | One indication of the extent to which fundraising has superseded any curatorial concern at the museum is that the society asked Thomas Armstrong , Jr. , to become its director last year . |
| 15 | Almost three years after his appointment as chairman and chief executive , Sir Kit McMahon has still not solved any of Midland 's three core problems : a big third-world-debt portfolio , high costs , and low-yielding assets . |
| 16 | ‘ We think we have solved any quality problems , ’ says Racal Vodafone managing director Chris Gent . |
| 17 | There was nowhere to park the car , and that solved any uncertainty about how to handle the parting ; before she slid out she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek like a schoolyard dare , and was gone before there could be any reaction . |
| 18 | Nobody has come forward with any car numbers ; and nobody has reported any sudden explosion of the fox population in the countryside . ’ |
| 19 | Indeed I am not aware that MoD has yet reported any doses . |
| 20 | Furthermore , local farmers had not reported any stock losses since the 1989 sightings . |
| 21 | Only three per cent reported any difficulty . |
| 22 | Alan Hazlewood , of the Ipswich and Suffolk Chamber , warned strikers that they were threatening working people 's jobs , while Jim Wellerd , his counterpart in North and Mid Essex , said member firms had not reported any difficulties . |
| 23 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 24 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 25 | yes , but I was gon na say er , he would n't of come any way in the fog |
| 26 | But General Milan Gvero , deputy commander of the Bosnian Serb forces , has attacked any plan for an airdrop warning it would lead to ‘ the massive use of military force ’ and escalation of war . |
| 27 | This does not seem to have succeeded any more than had an earlier regulation that only waste from timber cut with axe or adze was " lawful " , not sawn timber . |
| 28 | I do n't believe that with any union this company would have been cracked any quicker . |
| 29 | But nobody has their fridges repaired any more , they ca n't afford it . |
| 30 | But nobody has their fridges repaired any more , they ca n't afford it . |