Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] any [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where at any stage of proceedings by assignment , transmission , or devolution the interest or liability of any party devolves on some other person , the court may order ex parte that other person to be made a party " to carry on " the proceedings ( Ord 5 , r 11 ) . |
| 2 | There are no exclusions relating to : ( a ) age ; ( b ) pre-existing medical conditions including recurring illness and physical defects , except for any consequence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) or any AIDS related complex ; ( c ) pregnancy ( please read note on page 91 ) . |
| 3 | Only Trethowan 's name was omitted , presumably more for reasons of his public reputation as an interviewer and commentator than for any lack of enthusiasm for the Conservative cause . |
| 4 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 5 | We had more reviews than for any festival in the last fifteen years . |
| 6 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 7 | All cells in a daughter plant are descended from a single spore cell , so all cells in a given plant are closer cousins ( or whatever ) of one another than of any cell in another plant . |
| 8 | Once or twice Allen loosed off an arrow at a scampering squirrel , more in play than with any idea of hitting it , and then scrabbled about in the undergrowth to recover the shaft . |
| 9 | He went over the Tay to Aberfeldy more to keep Flemyng quiet than with any hope of working . |
| 10 | Most of the subjects were more familiar with LIBERTAS than with any version of Okapi . |
| 11 | One type of evidence comes in very much larger quantities from Charles 's kingdom than from any other in the ninth century : capitularies — that is , lists of points ( capitula literally means " headings " ) discussed and/or adopted as law by assemblies where king and aristocracy met to settle public affairs . |
| 12 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 13 | He guessed that the chairman 's embarrassment stemmed from the fact that these personal questions had been instigated by Barbara , or even Georgina , rather than from any curiosity on his own part . |
| 14 | There is a third political aim which emerges from Formen , and which is clearer here than in any other of Marx 's writings . |
| 15 | The turmoil that emerged both immediately before and after Mayer 's departure epitomized , perhaps more than in any other of the major Hollywood studios , the convulsions of change that were sweeping through the film capital , eventually spawning an underground of new , raw and raucous talent of which Nicholson was to be part . |
| 16 | Everywhere interchange between the consular and diplomatic services , though possible , remained relatively rare ( though , interestingly , probably less so in Russia than in any other of the great states ) . |
| 17 | The House will be pleased to know that in 1991 there appear to have been lower fatalities on our roads than in any year since the 1940s , despite a ninefold increase in the amount of traffic . |
| 18 | It also revealed that Third-World countries spent about US$16,000 million on acquiring new arms in 1989 — less than in any year since 1976 . |
| 19 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 20 | But if Charlemagne had a priestly character as a ruler , it lay more in the duty of a priest to teach and preach , than in any function of administering sacraments . |
| 21 | Musgrave found himself compelled to remark to a Frenchman he met that ‘ There was more blue in his country than in any region of the world with which I was acquainted . ’ |
| 22 | The report notes that ’ the introduction of counter-measures following a nuclear accident ’ are still ‘ based on the reduction of individual risk ’ , rather than on any assessment of the overall impact on the population as a whole . |
| 23 | It was more exciting and comfortable to travel in the back of a Ford car than on any part of a bus , even top front . |
| 24 | As Whyte ( 1 943 , p. 300 ) noted in his classic study of Chicago street gangs , acceptance by informants depends much more on the development of personal relationships than on any explanation concerning the reasons for conducting the research . |
| 25 | The lack of industrial investment was attributed to a potentially low rate of return rather than to any lack of institutional financing . |
| 26 | The Living Church owed its popularity to the parish priests , the oppressed ‘ white ’ clergy whom it supported , rather than to any enthusiasm amongst the masses . |
| 27 | Psychology 's obsession with behaviourism owes far more to the fashion for logical positivism emerging from physicists in the 1930s than to any understanding of the needs of psychology . |
| 28 | There was more interest to be taken in the prospect of damages due to the newspaper insertion — the first only , the second was in order — than to any lessening of a father 's due rights over his daughter until she was of age . |
| 29 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 30 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |