Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 2 | But until the inventor has done both things [ product and gestalt ] nothing has any meaning . |
| 3 | I have tried endless products which claim to remedy this , but nothing has any effect . |
| 4 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 5 | No-one has any need for the Avant-garde , it 's completely finished . |
| 6 | A lot of wc bowls now have a straight outlet , which fits any kind of fixing with the correct coupling . |
| 7 | Medical treatment which involves any touching of a patient is still analysed generally in law as lawful because the patient has consented to what would otherwise be an assault . |
| 8 | Left-inclined critics , whilst recognising that political inactivity can be construed as a measure of satisfaction and power for certain interests , nevertheless argue that this is not the case for all interests and in many cases they regard inactivity as symptomatic of a powerlessness and fatalism which renders any activity pointless . |
| 9 | We share a Peter Pan mentality , a lack of self-discipline and a strong streak of slob — which renders any room inhabited by the two of us into a bomb-site within minutes . |
| 10 | The basic point is that far from media changes giving rise to simple shifts in musical practice , media , content and social relations form a very complex interrelationship which renders any schema based on abstract historical antitheses very questionable . |
| 11 | Where a solicitor by himself or herself or with any other person without breach of paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule operates , actively participates in or controls any business , other than a solicitor 's practice or a multi-national partnership , which offers any service which may properly be offered as part of a solicitor 's practice , the solicitor shall ensure ? |
| 12 | The reference to the City of Chicago case is to a rule which prohibits any action for defamation by a local government authority . |
| 13 | Learning hath of late years met with an obstruction in many places which suppresses it from flourishing or increasing … and that is the inquisition upon the press , which prohibits any book from coming forth without an imprimature . |
| 14 | This is clearly revealed in the brick wall of indignation which flattens any suggestion that the crime problem defined by the state is not the only crime problem , or that criminals are not only those processed by the state . |
| 15 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 16 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 17 | What I , what I li what I , what I knew about tinkers and , and that , cos there 's nobody , there 's nobody has any experience of what it was like . |
| 18 | Nobody has any idea what he 's on about in the mangled trance opening song ‘ Bong ’ , but at least there 's some conviction and fire . |
| 19 | It 's the recession nobody has any money for that kind of thing … |
| 20 | It 's not surprising nobody has any respect for it . |
| 21 | The father-of-seven said : ‘ Nobody has any right to lay a hand on my son . |
| 22 | erm it 's very difficult to spot what 's going to go wrong in advance and some of the things you suspect are dodgy nobody has any trouble with , some of the things that you just did n't occur to you that would go wrong do go wrong , it 's like , mm mm , yeah mm |
| 23 | This little episode shows how Norman regarded the stress which accompanies any art form when it has been seriously undertaken . |
| 24 | At one end of the chain there is a quantum mechanically uncertain electron ; at the other a dependable pointer or equally reliable observer , neither of which exhibits any uncertainty in its behaviour . |
| 25 | The four cardinal metaphors are the four foundations of physical science ( space , time , matter and number ) ; none of which has any objective , external status , rather they are ‘ creations of the mind ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ None of which has any relevance to you , ’ said the woman , ‘ but it 's nice and polite of you to listen . ’ |
| 27 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 28 | The only type of housing tenure which has any effect is council tenancy : being a council tenant reduces the probability of receiving an offer by about 41% in Models I and 2 , ceteris paribus . |
| 29 | To develop a meaningful measure of readmission which has any validity as a measure of clinical care requires that the admission be unplanned , related to the index admission , and in some way avoidable . |
| 30 | But the TCCB has now put Robinson on List II , which allows any county to apply for his registration for next season . |