Example sentences of "have [verb] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residential roads ( Figure 5.6 ) are all marked with the Tempo 30 sign , but none has received any speed-reducing measures . |
| 2 | It would be absurdly sanguine to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed any global movement in the direction of democracy or popular power . |
| 3 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 4 | One indication of the extent to which fundraising has superseded any curatorial concern at the museum is that the society asked Thomas Armstrong , Jr. , to become its director last year . |
| 5 | Nobody has come forward with any car numbers ; and nobody has reported any sudden explosion of the fox population in the countryside . ’ |
| 6 | It was from 1705 that he endowed £1,000 for five schools in Saltash , Liskeard , Looe , Penzance and Grampound ; whether education has wrought any substantial change in youth since that day is open to opinion . |
| 7 | The Chancellor , Kenneth Clarke , has said any public sector pay rises should be offset by improvements in productivity . |
| 8 | Even if any of this were serious , there is no evidence that Mr Gorbachev has felt any pressing need , at least until now , to intervene militarily in Romania . |
| 9 | Where these domestic effects are strong , the country has prevented any far-reaching adjustments of the domestic economy at the micro-economic level . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 1 ) If on the application of the Secretary of State the court is satisfied — ( a ) that there is a reasonable likelihood that any person will contravene any provision of — ( i ) rules or regulations made under this Chapter ; ( ii ) sections 47 , 56 , 57 , or 59 above ; … ( c ) that any person has contravened any such provision or condition and that there are steps that could be taken for remedying the contravention , the court may grant an injunction restraining the contravention … or , as the case may be , make an order requiring that person and any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct to remedy it . |
| 11 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 12 | ‘ Edinburgh is Europe 's second largest centre for funds under management , but no bank has made any serious commitment to tapping this source from here , ’ he said . |
| 13 | GRANDMASTER DRAW : a short drawn game where neither player has made any real effort to fight and both are happy to settle for a draw . |
| 14 | Exactly what it told us that has made any marked difference to Europe , or even Austria , as we see it today is another matter . |
| 15 | You do n't say whether the boy has shown any special interest in you , but as you do n't mention it , I suspect he has n't . |
| 16 | No one has produced any satisfactory rationale for the genesis of this rule . |
| 17 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has had any recent representations about ways of encouraging wider utilisation of qualifying employee share ownership trusts . |
| 18 | It is not therefore appropriate for a partner who has had any detailed involvement with the engagement to carry out the review . |
| 19 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has had any further discussions concerning the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 20 | If the petitioner knows that the debtor has used any other names , he must state this in the petition ( r 6.7(3) ) . |
| 21 | Er my answer to Miss Whittaker 's originating question , there has been no argument at all that the area where this policy will operate , which is the open countryside outside of the A O N Bs and national parks , has got any special character that requires a more restrictive approach than national policy . |
| 22 | That if our health service and social security system has got any special advantages erm left , which it may still have , erm then perhaps erm our friends in the Community could learn a bit from them . |
| 23 | Newco should check whether the vendor has agreed any special method with Customs of accounting for VAT and , if advantageous to Newco , obtain agreement to continuation . |
| 24 | Since SSDs withdrew from sponsorship of private places — remember those days ? — no one has exercised any professional judgement about the need for residential care at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 25 | The administration costs would be endless and it would be difficult to prove exactly how many times a local pub rock group has played any one song . |
| 26 | The name of your illness or condition ( if the doctor has reached any definite conclusions ) . |
| 27 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 28 | Is he aware that the chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , has deplored any possible demise of the Apex Trust , that the Archbishop of Canterbury is raising private funds for the trust and that the Secretary of State received an all-party delegation to ask for a rescue package for it ? |
| 29 | The nature of the breakage is largely controlled by the structural properties of the bones concerned , and it is not considered that this experiment has provided any new information on breakage ( see , for instance , Korth 1979 ) . |
| 30 | And it has deterred any potential aggressor for the last three decades . |