Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 2 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 3 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 4 | ‘ So you see , I am happy , yet I regret that I can no longer be of any assistance to you , ’ Ybreska murmured , ‘ deferentially . |
| 5 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 6 | 14.1 shall not be under any liability to or to any party in any way whatsoever for the destruction , damage , delay or any matters of this nature whatsoever arising our of war , rebellion , civic commotion , strikes , lock-outs and industrial disputes ; fire , explosion , earthquake , act of God , flood , drought , or bad weather ; the unavailability or deliveries , supplies , work , disks , or other media or the requisitioning or any other act or order by any government department , council or other constituted body . |
| 7 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 8 | 8.1 The Seller shall not be under any liability for any failure to perform any of its obligations under the Order due to Force Majeure . |
| 9 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ Go on , Wilson , though it may not be of any use . ’ |
| 11 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 12 | If it could be shown that , as some holists contend , those individual actions , decisions and choices which are appealed to in explanation , are themselves the causal outcomes of various larger states of social affairs , then individuals would not be of any special interest . |
| 13 | With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use . |
| 14 | In 1764 the vicar of Ecclesfield told the Archbishop of York that the local Methodists would ‘ not be of any long continuance ’ and the vicar of High Hoyland wrote : |
| 15 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 16 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 17 | ‘ We have looked at the situation carefully , ’ a spokeswoman said , ‘ and we are confident that our clients will not be in any danger . ’ |
| 18 | Leave the haggling over the price to your agent and take his advice on the final choice of buyer , who should be well advanced in his own sale ; but do not be in any hurry to settle the matter without at least sleeping on it and allowing for second thoughts all round . |
| 19 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 20 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 21 | She desired that the legacy should not be in any way altered by the pope nor any other person . |
| 22 | This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely … |
| 23 | Mere respect for the memory and wishes of a testator can not be in any way construed as such . |
| 24 | That can not be in any of our interests , especially at this time . |
| 25 | for this reason , pre-ordering of relations ( strictly , tuples need not be in any pre-defined order in the relational model ) and the use of indexes to increase speeds of particular accesses , are both options in many DBMS to improve their overall performance . |
| 26 | will not be in any way shape or form detrimental |
| 27 | It 's not being of any , of any er anything in there , that 's of any use . |
| 28 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 29 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 30 | ‘ Have you ever been to any of those raves ? ’ he asked one group . |