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

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1 On Dec. 29 an official inquiry report by a Sind High Court judge ruled out any political motive in the assault and cleared Marwat Khan of complicity in the alleged incident .
2 It is true that somebody has to appoint the Chief Inspector as the Lord Chancellor appoints the judges , but other than that there is not , or rather there should not be , any political interest in the functioning of AIB at all .
3 Accidental Damage is self explanatory and limited by exclusion of damage due to breakdown , explosion or collapse which in effect excludes damage from any inherent defect in the plant .
4 Indeed one may ask whether there is any possible community in the past which , through its vision of equality between women and men , could inspire one ?
5 It was not simply a matter of avoiding the dangers of under-utilizing capital equipment , but also avoiding any unnecessary increase in the recruitment of regular labour .
6 While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning .
7 Plan is defined as " any hierarchical process in the organism ( student ) that can control the order in which a sequence of operations is to be performed " .
8 At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy .
9 It is important to note that third Person is quite unlike first or second person , in that it does not COrrespond to any specific participant-role in the speech event ( Lyons , 1977a : 638 ) .
10 Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it .
11 These questions were to make John Milton abandon any discernable belief in the doctrine of Grace and become a sort of Stoic .
12 Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer .
13 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
14 The district permission does not give approval to the layout plans submitted with the application or for any residential use in the building .
15 Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’
16 Thus on balance marginal and less protected forms of employment have not grown at any marked rate in the market capitalism phase that Lane distinguishes .
17 The following factors should be taken into account : ( a ) any foreign element in the case which would be likely to require the guardian ad litem to make inquiries , or take other action , outside the jurisdiction of the court ; ( b ) the likely burden on the guardian where he has to represent several children in the proceedings ; ( c ) the existence of proceedings relating to the child in any other Division of the High Court in which the Official Solicitor is representing the child ; and ( d ) any other relevant circumstances .
18 Brought up on the dictum that ‘ any foreign material in the body would re-emerge in a sea of pus ’ , his biggest fear was of bacterial infection .
19 In the absence of any clear guidance in the Act and until we have judicial precedent which explains the meaning of " computer-generated " , it is important that contractual provisions are made to cover the ownership of rights in the output of such intermediate works .
20 However , the lack of any popular interest in the subject , and the opposition of the local authority associations and of councillors who often hold posts in the constituency organizations of their parties , prevented any action .
21 Indeed commentators on test-case litigation in both the UK and the USA appear agreed that the main value of test-case litigation derives from its contribution to the broader process of political mobilisation rather than from any direct change in the law which it might be expected to bring about .
22 The committee 's oversight role is enhanced significantly if all its members are free to exercise independent judgment , unhindered by any direct involvement in the company 's day-to-day management .
23 Although Turkey avoided any direct participation in the war ( and was not officially designated as a member of the coalition — see p. 37935 ) , coalition forces were on Jan. 17 , 1991 , authorized by the Turkish government to use NATO bases in Turkey for bombing raids against Iraq .
24 The Crown Office will not take any direct interest in the programme and the legal question of identification , at least until the BBC decides formally to proceed with filming .
25 Lyell wished to deny any historical trend in the history of life since it would violate the steady-state principles of his uniformitarian system ( chapter 6 ) .
26 Alt is wisely tentative in his conclusions given the nature of the available data but he is prepared to argue that there is " no evidence that any British Government in the period [ since 1964 ] … believed it could " steal " an election by mortgaging the future in the interest of an economically better present " .
27 For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " .
28 But the conviction too often remains that any extra money in the government pot will somehow find its way into the pockets of the country 's leaders .
29 It would be absurdly sanguine to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed any global movement in the direction of democracy or popular power .
30 A masterweaver in Persia or Anatolia was held in the same esteem as we hold Rembrandt or Vermeer , and even today there are some textile artists whose reputation and status are equivalent to those of any contemporary artist in the West .
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