Example sentences of "be any number " in BNC.

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1 There could be any number of reasons . ’
2 unc can be any number we care to choose ; different values merely alter the scale of the inversion .
3 While I am sure that there may indeed be any number of genuine psychics and astrologers who can do precisely what they claim in this field , what is to prevent charlatans telling you that you were a Roman gladiator , a druid or even Napoleon ?
4 If you allow that there might be any number of offspring , the backing is not quite this value .
5 Whether " a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " is all that is required is quite possibly true but there may be any number of blocks in the road towards that manner of living .
6 A thousand pounds for one set of photographs ; there might be any number of others about .
7 We shall index these markets or islands by the subscript , where z can be any number between 1 and the number of islands in the economy , N. We begin the model by writing down the supply of output in the th market as where is the quantity of output supplied in market in period t ; p ( ) t is the price of output in market in period t ; Formula ; is the expectation formed in market of the economy-wide average price of output in period t , p t , using all the information available in the th market at the beginning of period t ; and β and β : 1 are coefficients , where β 1 is positive .
8 However in fact behind a navigator or a navigation server there will be any number of SQL Servers working on parallelized S Q L. Now this solution provides us with total linear scaleability , as we run out of processing power we will add another node to the environment and take advantage of all of the processing power of that node using parallel S Q L. This is a hundred percent software solution it 's not a hardware software combination .
9 For every occurence of the parent ( which must be ordered ) , there can be any number of occurrences ( including zero ) of the child ( which must also be ordered ) .
10 It is free-format text , and can be any number of lines long .
11 There can be any number ( >=0); of END statements anywhere in a program .
12 ‘ There can be any number of causes of chest pain , ’ Lindsey smiled reassuringly as she reached for the slender wrist .
13 It could be any number of things .
14 ‘ I 'm sure Dr Blake will agree , there could be any number of reasons — is n't that so , Dr Blake ? ’
15 And in any case , ’ she added , ‘ if you are lonely I 'm sure there must be any number of — of people you can ask here to keep you company . ’
16 In fact the bill can be sold , re-discounted , any number of times before maturity and there can be any number of holders during its life .
17 is a is a place where ooh there , there used to be any number of Welsh chapels
18 Before the emergence of the Teds there had been any number of alarms from the 1940s onwards about street violence , robbery attacks , ‘ Blitz kids ’ and ‘ cosh boys ’ .
19 ‘ I know there are any number of other musical versions and I 'm not a Shakespearean actor , yet I feel comfortable with him .
20 Sir Adrian points out : ‘ It is n't a question of just saying it 's A or B. There are any number of stations between A and B you have to examine . ’
21 There are any number of reasons why such loans may be successes or failures , which go well beyond the conditions for the disbursement of the loans .
22 There are any number of razor-sharp splinters and jagged , irregular surfaces , of course , but some fragments usually show what is called a conchoidal fracture : the surface is fairly smooth , but ridged with a number of concentric corrugations , centred on the point of impact of the hammer , and the effect produced is somewhat reminiscent of the appearance of the ridges on a cockle shell .
23 There are any number of sensible diets set out in paperbacks or reputable magazine supplements , many of them suggesting specimen meals for a week or a month .
24 There are any number of cross species that can combine to produce a lurcher but in my view the best of all is the Norfolk lurcher .
25 There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did .
26 The host country is seeded and with contenders from Canada , Argentina , South Africa and New Zealand there are any number of permutations to sort out .
27 And I find it hard to believe , because first of all you have to understand the word ‘ intelligent ’ in the way he meant it and I 'm not sure that I know what he meant ; and there are any number of ways of being intelligent .
28 Visibility is good and there are any number of routes in and around the boulders .
29 There are any number of " mega " theories about the history of the earth .
30 There are any number of suitable treatments for walls in a dining room : there is not going to bc much wear and tear , and no need for waterproof surfaces , as in kitchens or bathrooms , so you can afford to have some fun .
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