Example sentences of "[prep] any [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such occupation is further characterized by the absence of any substantial developments beyond and away from the main frontages . |
| 2 | A proposal to bar the President from membership of any political party narrowly failed to obtain the support of the necessary two-thirds of the 2,250 Congress delegates , the voting on March 13 being 1,303 in favour and 607 against . |
| 3 | The Maryland House of Delegates on Feb. 18 approved legislation guaranteeing continued access to legal abortions , whilst requiring doctors to inform the parents of any young woman under 18 who was seeking an abortion . |
| 4 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 5 | learning to see and remembering to look is a life-long process , as the work of any visual artist readily demonstrates . |
| 6 | In the UK , market researcher Andy Ryman says : ‘ The name of any new development obviously can not clash with any other competitor developments in the area . |
| 7 | Becker and Graf won Wimbledon and the US Open and did not get their pictures on the front cover of any non-tennis magazines here . ’ |
| 8 | The upbeat account of the firm 's local fortunes may be regarded as somewhat surprising given the fact that IBM Eastern Europe has not announced the conclusion of any major contracts so far this year . |
| 9 | Also , on a more mundane level , there was the postponement of any financial debts then owing until such time as they returned from the crusade . |
| 10 | If the mind is constrained to produce and understand metaphor in terms of this inventory of abstract grounding , derived from bodily experience , are n't other understandings of any figurative structure literally inconceivable ? |
| 11 | The lesson of the casualties and the lack of any real gains even to the victors was made harsher by this realization , that for four years Europe had fought a war which no one had wanted . |
| 12 | It sits upon a throne , an absolute monarch , unafraid of any princely off-spring still unborn and by its Subjects it is hated , feared , revered and loved , known by all and recognized by none . |
| 13 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 14 | He is ambitious , but rebellion of any overt kind now appears to be out . |
| 15 | Henry could n't think of any celebrated poisoners apart from Maltby and Crippen . |
| 16 | ‘ The board may prohibit a member in the course of the member 's relevant investment business from — ( a ) entering into transactions of any specified kind either at all or to any specified extent or in specified circumstances ; ( b ) soliciting business or business of a specified kind from , or except from , persons of a specified kind or in , or except in , specified circumstances ; ( c ) carrying on business in , or except in , a specified manner . |
| 17 | ‘ The board may prohibit a member in the course of the member 's relevant investment business from — ( a ) entering into transactions of any specified kind either at all or to any specified extent or in specified circumstances ; ( b ) soliciting business or business for a specified kind from , or accept from , persons of a specified kind or in , or except in , specified circumstances ; ( c ) carrying on business in , or except in , a specified manner . |
| 18 | The sanctions anticipated for April 15 included ( i ) the denial of airport facilities to any aircraft flying to or from Libya , except in cases of urgent humanitarian need ; ( ii ) the withholding of aircraft insurance or maintenance services , aircraft and aircraft components from Libya ; ( iii ) the withholding of any kind of arms , military equipment or paramilitary police equipment ; ( iv ) the withdrawal of any military advisers currently advising the Libyan authorities ; ( v ) significant reductions in staff levels at diplomatic missions in Libya ; ( iv ) moves to " prevent the operation " of Libyan Arab Airlines ; and ( vii ) the denial of entry , or expulsion , of Libyans expelled or excluded from other states due to their " terrorist activities " . |
| 19 | Another , and most potent force , was the development of new forms of international money and international debt ( summarized by the term Eurodollars ) which are outside the control of any national economy so that the hegemonic power that the US exercised through the international use of its currency was undermined . |
| 20 | The purchaser may be seeking to ensure that invoices are not raised pre-acquisition for deliveries to be made post-acquisition and also to ensure that full account is taken of any potential refunds etc which may be due to customers as a result of estimated prices being used . |
| 21 | In the absence of any express provisions once employment has ended the law will only protect information within the second class . |
| 22 | An occupier may expect that a person , in the exercise of his calling , will appreciate and guard against any special risks ordinarily incident to it , so far as the occupier leaves him free to do so . |
| 23 | ( b ) Persons entering in the exercise of a calling Section 2(3) ( b ) states : " An occupier may expect that a person , in the exercise of his calling , will appreciate and guard against any special risks ordinarily incident to it , so far as the occupier leaves him free to do so . " |
| 24 | ‘ All members of staff with any supervisory responsibilities also have training responsibilities . |
| 25 | During the process of interviewing the known sector , it was found that , because of the enigmatic lifestyle of heroin users , an average of three or four home visits were necessary before the interview with any given individual successfully took place . |
| 26 | But the decisions made fascinating reading and would presumably still be dragged into any legal proceedings today , even if they were not regarded as binding . |
| 27 | There was even a well equipped playground which could have been dropped into any English park almost unnoticed but which looked rather incongruous in the centre of a Mexican prison complex . |
| 28 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 29 | Subrules 1a and 1b specify that in monomorphemic monosyllables ( o ) will be realized as a raised and lengthened variant before a voiceless fricative occurring either alone or in a cluster ; alternatively , it will be raised and lengthened before any voiced consonant either alone or in a cluster . |
| 30 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |