Example sentences of "any [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities .
2 The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him .
3 On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic .
4 Bits of metal did n't normally make any noise at all .
5 Does Nat Sec have any responsibility at all to ensure that the work is being done , and if so what is Nat Sec expected to do if an Area Sec does not appear to be doing his/her job effectively ?
6 read the answer the answer is no have appointed the U K's leading management specialist , management services Limited for several reasons , the firstly because of their profession and caring attitude to the management of housing , secondly , because time has shown , the management charges rise at a rate either slightly below or in the level of inflation , did you have any responsibility at all for that sentence ? and secondly the time
7 Why on earth should cats have any reactions at all to something as sophisticated as human music ?
8 Congress , what is just as worrying is apparently the Parliamentary Labour Party was extremely reluctant to take any stand at all to respond to this blatant breach of I L O laws .
9 ( In case you are wondering about the arithmetic , 19 per cent do n't have any preferences at all ! )
10 Up until now there has been no need to believe that neutrinos have any mass at all .
11 A legislative authority on the other hand is one whose job is to create new reasons for its subjects , i.e. reasons which are new not merely in the sense of replacing other reasons on which they depend , but in not purporting to replace any reasons at all .
12 You will be advised of any change at time of booking .
13 About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure .
14 It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . )
15 I mean any groups at all and if so which ones .
16 and have you any experience at the finging Phil ?
17 Anyone who has had any experience at all of dealing with typeset material or the creation of pages should still find PageMaker the more logical choice , whatever the document .
18 Is it possible , one might wonder , to be ‘ cheerful ’ without any hope at all ?
19 ‘ But is n't there any hope at all for Gerry ? ’
20 It did n't , thank heavens , seem likely that a situation would ever arise in which there was no hope for Richard , whereas , on the other hand , Willis considered that for himself there was scarcely any hope at all if he could not sell Dreadnought .
21 And Pa Pat I do n't think I do n't hold out any hope at all that people will pay any attention they will go they 'll see a little puppy somewhere they 'll say , Oh that 's lovely we 'll buy that for Tommy er , and then Tommy will abuse it totally and er they 'll say , Well the dog was a a waste of time it did n't work properly and er did n't know how to er how to look after itself .
22 At the outset parties were reminded that they could not hold political meetings in places of worship and had to obtain police permission to hold any meetings at all .
23 That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ .
24 ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all .
25 One offered guaranteed annual earnings of £35,000 to people able to sell 45 titles a week from home , but a complainant who sent £149 for more information was unable to make any money at all .
26 So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all .
27 So you see he was very happy , very flattered to be bought drinks in The Bar , and this life with hardly any money at all was why listening to other people 's classical music on their expensive sound systems was a real and true idea of luxury to him .
28 Those Sardinians who had any money at all were able to buy up land for practically nothing and get rich pasture for their sheep .
29 In fact , only 12 national forests make any money at all , and a paltry $10m at that .
30 You may feel that the council should not give any money at all to a political party , but you can not move an amendment that no money be given since this is a simple negative of the original motion .
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