Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Non-Executive Committee has the sole power to appoint and remove the Chairman and any Vice-Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board , to determine their period of office , and to fix their remuneration and that of any executive Director of the Company . |
| 2 | He has also advertised a collection of Odes ; and for his Vanity and Faculty of Lying , they are come to a Jayl , or Bedlam , and that without any help … . ’ |
| 3 | Their task was to train pilots , observers and air gunners , men only recently signed up and grateful for any preparation , however basic . |
| 4 | A pick-up truck on cruise automatic , and unused to any hinderance , slides into the back of the Cadillac with a satisfying biting crunch . |
| 5 | In Dee , however , Palles C.B. deplored such a view , which he claimed was ‘ abhorrent to our best feelings and discreditable to any jurisprudence in which it may succeed in obtaining a place . ’ |
| 6 | Total subscription income increased by 2.5% to £509,709 , and this without any increase to the general level during the year in the individual rates of subscriptions , which I am sure members will applaud . |
| 7 | Recording in a top flight studio is often new and exciting for any band . |
| 8 | He thought it was also reasonable and sensible for any family involved in long term care to have additional assistance for particularly strenuous and regular activities . |
| 9 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 10 | The NEC decided that Militant did not satisfy the criterion that any group within the Labour Party must be open and free to any members . |
| 11 | The Efta states remain outside the jurisdiction of the European Court and free from any EEC decisions which do not relate directly to trade . |
| 12 | The London Stock Exchange invariably requires that a company seeking a listing provides in its articles of association that its shares will be free from any restriction on the right of transfer and free from any lien ( see the Yellow Book , section 1 , chapter 2 , para 4 and section 9 , chapter 1 , para 1.2 ) . |
| 13 | Throughout the remainder of the 1935–6 session he was exhausted , depressed and bereft of any reserve of prestige . |
| 14 | ‘ It is foolish and unrealistic for any teachers ’ organisation not to acknowledge that reality . |
| 15 | Here a breakdown in communication and planning between hospital and area team demonstrates how pressures pile up , leaving a vulnerable person totally powerless , and deprived of any control of what was happening . |
| 16 | However , section 138 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 protects the purchaser from this provided that when he bought the goods he was bona fide and unaware of any writ of execution relating to the defendant . |
| 17 | Interview George is embarrassed by his fame and unaware of any jealousy . |
| 18 | In contrast , Article 16 provides that a diplomatic officer or consular agent may only take evidence , without compulsion , of nationals of the State in which he exercises his functions , or of third States , if a competent authority in the requested State has given its permission , either generally or in the particular case , and subject to any conditions imposed . |
| 19 | Virtually every school in the country has a head teacher who is responsible for the overall running of the school and for the rules , discipline and curriculum , under the guidance of the school 's governors and subject to any requirements of the LEA and , since the 1988 Education Reform Act , to the national curriculum . |
| 20 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |
| 21 | It is easy to use and adaptable for any building . |
| 22 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |
| 23 | Most of the major types of charge have to be registered and these on any definition are clearly security interests . |
| 24 | ‘ I find it impossible to make my hair look neat and stylish for any length of time because it is so difficult to manage . |
| 25 | We performed a nested case-control study of deaths from lung cancer , matching 79 cases ( 58 men and 21 women : 68 with lung cancer given as the underlying cause of death and 11 with any mention of lung cancer on the death certificate ) with 154 controls . |
| 26 | If the actor intends to provoke a breach of the peace ( which will often be independently criminal , by virtue of sections 4 and 5 in any event ) , it should be open to the policeman in the last resort to require him to desist . |
| 27 | The walls were unpainted , mud-brown , and bare of any decoration or shelf . |
| 28 | This is the task to which the church historians of the fourth and fifth centuries , above all dedicated themselves : their work , more than anything else , helped to shape a sense of the church 's identity with the church of the martyrs , rooted in its own past , continuous and undisturbed by any emperor 's conversion . |
| 29 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 30 | And the special properties of sodium silicate — liquid , settable , and non-toxic at any temperature — are being developed to create fire-resistant paints , adhesives , binders and building materials . |