Example sentences of "[prep] any [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 8.5 After any reported incident of violence to an employee , some degree of counselling should be provided .
2 Distinguishing Rex v. Clarke , 22 Cr.App.R. 58 and Reg. v. Hall , 43 Cr.App.R. 29 , Shelley J.A. , delivering the judgment of the court , observed that the defence is entitled to see such a statement , not by virtue of any general rule of law , but by virtue of the prosecution 's duty to inform the defence of statements in their possession made by a witness whose evidence at the trial differs substantially from what has been said in the statements .
3 More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history .
4 He had no interest in the adaptation of species to their environment , nor indeed in the provision of any naturalistic mechanism of transmutation .
5 ‘ If Cllr Murphy is aware of any specific incidence of malpractice or wrongdoing , he should detail the same in writing to either the chief executive or the independent consultants appointed to look into this matter , ’ she said .
6 In the absence of any alternative network of support provided by the politics they participated in as employed men , the labour movement , they are thrown on a charitable sector dominated by a punitive and puritanical morality .
7 To cover all work undertaken by solicitors arising out of any alleged act of negligence and/or breach of statutory duty as a result of which the victim has sustained personal injuries or fatal injuries .
8 Postmodernism , therefore , becomes a certain self-consciousness about a culture 's own historical relativity — which begins to explain why , as its critics complain , it also involves the loss of the sense of an absoluteness of any Western account of History .
9 With hindsight , the emergence of any new branch of science seems inevitable , and its development a logical progression .
10 Any kind of first occasion always seems more difficult than subsequent occasions and this is no less true of a change in an electoral system than it is of any other kind of change .
11 The Labour party has form in standing up for secrecy in local government , in opposing the publication of school results or of any other kind of league table .
12 Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you .
13 ‘ The logic of standard English can not be distinguished from the logic of any other dialect of English by any test that we can find ’ ( Labov , 1973 , p. 52 ) .
14 In this respect , the business manager is different from the manager of any other type of organisation .
15 price of any other type of bedroom ( e.g. suite ) ;
16 Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism .
17 These writers argue that the oppression of women by men is the most important aspect of social inequality in society , and that men 's exploitation of women is not a by-product of any other form of inequality .
18 In the preparation of a project report , as in the organization of any other form of writing , structure is the function of purpose .
19 A higher degree of commitment is demanded of church musicians than of any other leader of worship .
20 It does not drive them mad any more than depriving them of any other sort of sleep , although one early report did suggest the reverse , and was highly publicized .
21 However , this interpretive dependence on background assumptions has been used as an argument against the possibility of any systematic study of language understanding : if the set of potentially relevant assumptions is coincident with the total set of facts and beliefs held by participants , then to study this interpretive process will be to study the total sum of human knowledge and beliefs ( Katz & Fodor , 1963 ) .
22 A similar enquiry should also be made in the case of " right to buy " purchases ( see Chapter 14 ) : Is the seller [ or lessor , on the grant of a new lease ] aware of any major work of repair or otherwise , anticipated in the foreseeable future towards which a purchaser [ lessee ] might be required to contribute ?
23 There is inevitably a transition period after the implementation of any major piece of legislation .
24 It would be utterly inappropriate in 1980 to try to consider the nature of the stratigraphical record , or indeed of any major aspect of geology , without seeking its relationship with the ideas of sea-floor spreading and plate tectonics .
25 Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic .
26 A parliamentary enactment whose effect would be the destruction of any recognisable form of democracy ( for example , a measure purporting to deprive a substantial section of the population of the vote on the grounds of their hostility to Government policies ) could not consistently be applied by the courts as law .
27 Allan states that a ‘ parliamentary enactment whose effect would be destruction of any recognisable form of democracy … could not consistently be applied by the courts as law . ’
28 We have now identified two levels of stress : primary and secondary , as well as a third level which can be called unstressed and regarded as being the absence of any recognisable amount of prominence .
29 Although the new copyright act does not mention samplers , it does in general restrict the unlicensed recording of any recognisable piece of copyright music and sound recording .
30 In 1822 , eight years after Thomas Lord [ q.v. ] had moved his famous turf to its last resting place at St John 's Wood , Aislabie became the first secretary of the MCC , the first sign of any real formality of organization .
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