Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary decision relating to you , you have a right to apply for a review of the decision to the next level of officer specified in the procedure referred to in paragraph 3 above . |
| 2 | Whether or not Niki ever said any such thing , since his books are ghost-written without any great elaboration from Niki , who says he never reads them , the facts are true . |
| 3 | It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth . |
| 4 | The central question to be addressed by the committee was : whether any failings in the level and quality of investment have been due in any important degree to an inadequate supply of finance , reflecting a failure in the functioning of the financial system . |
| 5 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 6 | Recovered cases should not be mixed with uninfected horses until nasal swabs are clear of any bacterial growth . |
| 7 | A horse that has apparently recovered completely can remain a carrier for a considerable time and therefore should not be mixed with uninfected horses until nasal swabs are clear of any bacterial growth . |
| 8 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 9 | NVQs are different to any conventional qualifications however : |
| 10 | Windscreen claims are no different to those on motor policies and are subject to any excess applicable to the policy . |
| 11 | The construct VAR unc declares the variables unc for use within P. These variables are distinct from any other variables with the same names that may be present in the external scope . |
| 12 | Despite some speculation on the extent of their influence in shaping and informing defence policy this has not so far been subject to any systematic analysis . |
| 13 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 14 | These rates are payable for any new members joining the Society from September on — thus giving three free months . |
| 15 | Rocks and water , or a suggestion of these elements , are central to any Japanese Garden 's success . |
| 16 | Contributors also agree on another point : that public expenditure and public services based on principles of universalism and citizenship for all are central to any real programme . |
| 17 | It will help us to re-examine two questions which are central to any educational institution : ( i ) what contributions to the learning process can be made by libraries , independent study , the new media and the computer ? and ( ii ) what are tutorial staff/or ? |
| 18 | No monarch has refused to dissolve Parliament in modern times and the Queen has , in recent years , been relieved of any real responsibility as to the choice of Prime Minister as the various political parties have now clearly defined rules for the election of a leader . |
| 19 | Drifting along in a straight line at a steady speed , or following the natural curves of space if you 're close to any heavy objects . |
| 20 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 21 | because of these variations in predator/prey relationships , neither the size of the prey nor the species preyed upon are diagnostic of any single predator species . |
| 22 | Communities in which there is a very special relationship between the individual and his neighbours , regulated to some extent by statute , but to a very much greater extent by custom and consensus ; and , of course , subject at times to the frictions and disruptions which are inevitable in any human situation . |
| 23 | Apart from the ethical questions , the costs of these measures are disproportionate to any public health benefits . |
| 24 | By contrast , the terms kinship , magic , myth and ritual , are devoid of any general agreed meaning and are not tied in with any clearly identifiable set of representative social roles . |
| 25 | For instance , the seller of goods might expressly exclude the statutory implied terms relating to the goods — The Seller gives no undertaking that the goods are fit for any particular purpose . |
| 26 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 27 | There is evidence that Protestant millenarianism , enjoying a resurgence during the civil war period in England , could provide a framework within which Bacon 's program for the empirical sciences gained an extra impetus — despite the fact that Bacon himself had been hostile to any religious movement that might threaten the fragile monarchy to which he had constantly vowed allegiance . |
| 28 | The Iraqi government announced on March 1 , 1989 , that a general amnesty from legal proceedings would be granted to " all Iraqis who reside abroad and are involved in any political crime with the exception of the traitors Jalal al-Talabani and the agents of the Iranian regime [ a reference to the DPK ] " . |
| 29 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 30 | This is why a child who grows up in an atmosphere where artistic beauty is in evidence and talked about and striven after has an enormous advantage over the child from a background of visual ugliness in which people are innocent of any artistic discernment . |