Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Scouse was seated in his armchair reading a paperback — a Western — oblivious to the flies and mosquitoes , and as I approached it was obvious he was not bothered in any way about the smell . |
| 32 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 33 | She was not prejudiced against any race . |
| 34 | The daughter of our maître de chai was not considered in any way suitable . |
| 35 | The sin , curiously enough was not committed by any woman . |
| 36 | First , the post was not attached to any specialist institution . |
| 37 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
| 38 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 39 | Sir Ralph was not murdered by any peasant . ’ |
| 40 | To ensure that his sovereign 's dignity was not slighted by any infringement of the precedence claimed by his representatives continued to be one of the major tasks of the European diplomat ; and the continuing importance of questions of precedence is shown by the continuing production of books which claimed to elucidate them . |
| 41 | David Scott , when strongly pressing the candidacy of Abram Robinson for a surveyor 's post in the East India Company 's service , encountered one of the occupational hazards of a politician in this period , when he found that his candidate was totally lacking in any manner of qualification for such a situation . |
| 42 | ‘ You can check with whoever you like but I was totally exonerated of any blame at the time , and I resent you and your family 's implications that I was responsible for Eddie 's death ! |
| 43 | This would have been a somewhat difficult task for the plumber , but he was probably restricted in any case due to the close cering of the corpse . |
| 44 | Following the peasant habit of referring to any elder as ‘ Mother/Father ’ or ‘ Grandmother/Grandfather ’ , the word was also applied to any gathering of older folk . |
| 45 | An open invitation was also agreed for any District Council representative to join meetings . |
| 46 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 47 | The chauffeur said that everyone at the hospital was regularly updated on any changes to the hospital 's corporate goals . |
| 48 | Even that piece of teaching was n't enough ; Paul had to use a very rare word , to make it clear that God 's power to answer prayer was n't limited in any way . |
| 49 | The village did n't even have a name , and was n't placed on any maps of the country . |
| 50 | No , I was n't thinking of any time . |
| 51 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 52 | ‘ I was n't neglected in any way . |
| 53 | No I was n't playing with any policeman erm |
| 54 | Erm , as I say , it was n't taken in any way to circumvent your discussion on the project , it was very much one to ensure that we did n't lose the offered grant . |
| 55 | Unfortunately , my review sample was n't accompanied with any documentation . |
| 56 | With her hands clasped behind her back , she was fully exposed to any eyes which might look her way . |
| 57 | If the Lebanese Forces were seriously gunning for him , there was nowhere to hide in any case . |
| 58 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |
| 59 | The child was never imbued with any conception of what education was all about — ‘ I did n't recognize it . ’ |
| 60 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |