Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of such a system would be that the Consultation List would be available on all computer terminals , and therefore all personnel could be permitted to update/alter details , e.g. contact names , addresses , to ensure the records are as up–to–date as possible at any time . |
| 2 | University undergraduates listened to a list of words and were required to recall as many of these words as possible in any order they wished , either immediately or after a delay . |
| 3 | This must be done as soon as possible after any loss , damage or accident . |
| 4 | It has been discarded as worthless for any library purpose , like an old shoe or damaged pot in a mediaeval rubbish tip . |
| 5 | The word ‘ murder ’ itself constantly on someone 's lips , like a sonorous curse , seemed to have the power to evoke those half-suppressed images of his father 's face which had become as unclear , as devoid of any life , as an old photograph . |
| 6 | This makes let very different from allow and permit , which do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event is realized : in ( 212 ) and ( 213 ) above , they even evoke a state of permission as existing before any realization of the act for which permission has been given , something which is absolutely impossible with let . |
| 7 | You do not try to catch them out , to trap them or to expose them as inadequate in any way . |
| 8 | Miles , battle-hardened in the tough Australian school , rates Wigan as equal to any side he has played in . |
| 9 | Parents are seen as responsible for any difficulties in coping with their children . |
| 10 | The decision to produce fissile material in the United Kingdom had been taken before the breakdown and was regarded as non-negotiable in any circumstances … . |
| 11 | And the conditions under which they are kept could justly be described as intolerable in any society . |
| 12 | The budget was seen as essential to any agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on new loan arrangments . |
| 13 | And his Panopticon design was intended as a model not only for prisons but as suitable for any establishment in which a number of people had to be supervised : establishments , he suggested , such as " … workhouses , manufactories , or mad-houses , or hospitals , or schools " ( Works , IV p 70 ) . |
| 14 | George did not class his pastimes as dirty in any sense . |