Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the United Nations Security Council , which has given thought and time to the plight of those troubled people , the Kurds , does not appear to have given any thought or time to the plight of the people in the south of Iraq , the Shia . |
| 2 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 3 | No one appears to have recognized any difficulties with that . |
| 4 | Although Wilfrid did evangelise Mercia and founded a site at Oundle in Northamptonshire , it is probable the reference is to another Stamford , as the name was not uncommon and Alchfrith is unlikely to have owned any land in this area . |
| 5 | On the contrary , he seems to have discouraged any notions of romance whatsoever . |
| 6 | They do not , however , seem to have possessed any programme for the betterment of lay society . |
| 7 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 8 | I have also had all internal cavities sprayed professionally with nickel screening paint from Maplin , but that does n't seem to have made any odds . |
| 9 | However , the death or incapacity of experts does not seem to have presented any problem in practice , and in any event the court would not allow a rent review to be frustrated by a breakdown in the machinery . |
| 10 | None of the tribes to the north and west of this divide minted coins or appears to have had any contact with Rome in the pre-conquest period . |
| 11 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 12 | I 'll kill him , they do n't worry , they do n't worry about what , what bills you 've got going out , I E a car on H P or your or erm furniture on H P , when you 're on on the dole you 're you ai n't supposed to have had any bills incurred |
| 13 | This , combined with the female predominance of this cancer , indicates that HIV is unlikely to have had any role so far in anal cancer development in Denmark . |
| 14 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 15 | Will the chairman of the Tory party send that money back to its rightful owners , bearing in mind the fact that the Labour party has agreed to send back Maxwell 's money , if it is found to have had any connection with the Mirror group pension fund ? |
| 16 | It could well be significant that Cnut is not himself said to have had any connection with the document , and it may reveal little of the real business of the Oxford meeting . |
| 17 | As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions . |
| 18 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 19 | I was too young to have become any sort of model of endurance . |
| 20 | You claim not to have found any lighter , is that it ? ’ |
| 21 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 22 | Western politicians do not seem to have learned any lesson from these events , particularly not the fact that , until Arab regimes become acceptable to the populations over which they rule , they will continue to be unstable , repressive and no basis for effective collective security . |
| 23 | Both have walls and bastions normally associated with fourth-century defences , but in the only recent excavations at Caistor , later disturbances have been found to have removed any opportunity of establishing the presence of any earlier period of defences . |
| 24 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 25 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 26 | An annual employee profile is issued to each employee showing the information held about him/her and giving the employee the opportunity to make known any inaccuracies . |