Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] have any " in BNC.

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1 In order to confirm or disprove the phenomena , certain criteria have to be decided in order for the theory to have any value .
2 It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book .
3 If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually .
4 Thus the study will explore what relationship , if any , exists between entry qualifications and completion rates , whether the age of the candidate has any effect , the success rates of women compared to men and how important full-time study is as compared to the part-time mode .
5 In a case where the reason for requiring a specimen of blood or urine arises under section 7(3) , there is no question of the driver having any option to exercise .
6 Leeming had written that no member of the party had any idea why they were kidnapped or who the kidnappers were .
7 As a unionist with very good reason for having the warmest of feelings towards Scotland , may I ask my right hon. Friend to make it absolutely clear to anyone who wishes to establish an institution in Scotland with legislative powers over certain areas of policy that , regrettably , it would be totally unacceptable for any Scottish Member of the House to have any say , vote or control over areas of policy in the rest of the United Kingdom ?
8 Boardwalk was no flying machine , a big clumsy four-year-old who had yet to win a race , but none of the opposition had any form .
9 However , a spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) said in London on Aug. 25 that no section of the opposition had any interest in the disintegration of Iraq .
10 The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the plasma fatty acid pattern in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease compared with healthy controls and to ascertain whether the activity of the disease has any influence upon plasma concentrations of fatty acids .
11 You must go to the casualty department of a hospital to have any wound properly looked at , as soon as possible .
12 I 'm not the least bit religious so the idea of a priest having any influence on my life is ridiculous .
13 It is clear that for a girl to have any chance of succeeding , she must play the Tour in some style .
14 For a project to have any chance of being completed without the potential for constant disputes , these and many other questions must be answered within the contract .
15 I have to report on whether the group as a whole has any prospect of Paying its debts .
16 ( i ) Has there been an improper , unreasonable or negligent act or omission ? ( ii ) As a result have any costs been incurred by a party ? ( iii ) If the answers to ( i ) and ( ii ) are ‘ Yes ; ’ should the court exercise its discretion to disallow or order the representative to meet the whole or any part of the relevant costs , and if so what specific sum is involved ?
17 Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories .
18 Key decisions are taken which will affect people 's lives , but no one from the province has any say .
19 However , if the drug exerts its action intramucosally after absorption , as seems likely , it is doubtful whether sufficient unchanged 5-ASA would be present within the mucosa to have any effect .
20 Mr Clarke said that at present no one in the service had any particular incentive to reduce waiting lists .
21 The Labour Party does not believe that councils or schools should promote homosexuality , and I hope that no-one in the Committee has any doubt about that ...
22 In no instance had any person recently vaccinated or re-vaccinated contracted the disease .
23 It was Goebbels who said : ‘ The best propaganda is not that which is always revealing itself : the best propaganda is that which works invisibly , penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge at all of the propagandist 's initiative . ’
24 I must here point out to you that any attempts on the part of people outside the project to have any contact with the child will be vigorously rejected .
25 Producers will usually only meet pluggers who they know already , and rarely see any band 's representative because they are probably far too close to the music to have any objectivity .
26 For all his shortcomings Largo Caballero was the only political figure with sufficient standing on the left to have any chance of harnessing the revolution to the cause of victory ; his advocacy of ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' between 1934 and 1936 had helped to dissipate some of the mutual antagonism which had previously soured his relations with the CNT , while his role as the ‘ Spanish Lenin' during 1936 had made possible a close relationship with the Spanish Communist Party .
27 Security is necessary if the data on a computer has any value at all , but the level of security required can range from simply making backups , all the way to sophisticated access control , encryption , virus prevention and hacking control .
28 None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible .
29 At no time has any umpire , official or administrator had cause to allege we have done anything illegal .
30 At no point had any of us been told the procedure that would lead to us being selected to start our basic training .
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