Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gut instinct about Jimmy had been right — even if none of this made any real sense yet . |
| 2 | Yet the capital 's merchants were made particularly conscious of their dependence upon government favour and contracts , and this inhibited any coherent assertion of non-noble interests . |
| 3 | Like every other ruler of a great State , the empress was the captive of the historical situation in which she found herself , and in her case this forbade any radical change in the social structure of Russia or any far-reaching amelioration from above of the position of the peasant . |
| 4 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 5 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 6 | This left any harder wood in place . |
| 7 | In fact , until recently few had any serious trouble getting support for research , but now times are getting a bit harder and the peer review system may be more seriously worked to handle the greater volume competition . |
| 8 | Few had any great faith in prisons as institutions for the reform of the inmates they contained , nor of imprisonment as a means of controlling crime . |
| 9 | Few had any educational qualifications or trade skills that could be sold on the shrinking job market . |
| 10 | The oil crisis and following economic recession of the 1970s reinforced any protectionist tendencies of the individual member states and it was not until the early 1980s that the political will developed to re-focus the creation of a single market . |
| 11 | It was better , but not a lot , and McLeish who knew her to be in her late fifties decided any casual observer would put her at nearer seventy . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court had on Feb. 1 rejected any further attempts to try García for corruption during his term of office [ see p. 38718 ] . |
| 13 | In an extraordinary twist , health secretary William Waldegrave first denied any Tory involvement then admitted Conservative Central Office had helped the consultant involved get in touch with the Daily Express . |
| 14 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 15 | They held each other out as being in partnership ( appearing together on each one 's business stationery etc ) but neither had any significant involvement in the other 's practice , or any financial interest therein or any right to examine the other 's accounts . |
| 16 | The death of Wordsworth 's brother John in the spring of 1805 destroyed any remaining illusions . |