Example sentences of "any [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ At the moment , there is severe doubt about the extent to which auditors owe any responsibility to shareholders at all . ’ |
| 2 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 3 | However , companies without any experience of operations in Britain would be well advised to seek professional advice before attempting to carry out work likely to require planning permission . |
| 4 | The third party should file any defence with copies for delivery to all the other parties within 14 days of service on him inclusive of the day of service . |
| 5 | Any interaction between chains in the crystal lattice will help to hold the structure together more firmly and raise the melting temperature . |
| 6 | It means that a defendant who has incurred large costs both at trial and in the Court of Appeal in resisting a claim by a legally aided plaintiff , but who then receives legal aid in the House of Lords where he is finally successful , is ineligible for any award of costs against the board . |
| 7 | While in ( 16b ) the speaker is not represented as having any kind of expectations at all , in ( 16a ) he is : the sentence with the infinitive means that the speaker was hoping for someone to come to his assistance even before this happened . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that known international terrorists do not receive any support from countries in the middle east with which the United Kingdom maintains diplomatic relations . |
| 9 | The problem is not just that the children have not attended a school where English is taught ; they have not been to a school of any description for years on end . |
| 10 | Given the problems explained above , it may be difficult , and in some cases counter-productive to attempt any correction of errors within our system , however initial investigations suggest there may be particular situations where correction can be attempted and is in fact useful to improve recognition rates . |
| 11 | It should be noted that the £275 minimum takes account of any reduction in damages through contributory negligence . |
| 12 | It is possible to analyse any text in terms of it . |
| 13 | There was n't any violence between prisoners in the dining hall — it was mainly smashing up prison property — but there was some violence towards the officers . |
| 14 | But no ‘ sub-ethnicities ’ were considered , nor was there any indication of differences in performance on particular subjects . |
| 15 | After the shadow cabinet met in London to draw up a campaign strategy , the Labour leader dismissed reports of a split and said that any perception of divisions in the party was without foundation . |
| 16 | The result of this process of ‘ making do ’ with what is available is that any likelihood of collections of such presently unavailable poets appearing are rendered even more economically impossible . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a damned disgrace and wo n't be any help to pensioners like myself , ’ Mrs Bryce , 81 , said after watching the Chancellor 's speech at her flat in Dalry , Edinburgh . |
| 18 | If there is any range of activities in which those who possess great power clearly can do better than most people it is in co-ordinating the activities of many people . |
| 19 | Reviewing current materials is a good first step for any re-evaluation of approaches to education . |
| 20 | We had no right to involve Frank in any battle of wills between Mazzin and his colleagues , so we had to avoid a confrontation . |
| 21 | On page eight , item one three two , can I draw committee 's attention to , says she , feverishly flicking through the pieces of paper , to a letter that John Patten has written to us , you 'll see what we asked Amanda to do on our behalf , Amanda Root , Women 's Sub also asked her to do that , and John Patten , surprisingly enough has written back , his private secretary has written back , she continues to say , ‘ Mr Patten is used to getting communications from Chief Officers conveying the views of committees , he has never had any correspondence from Sub-Committees through other officers ’ . |
| 22 | King & McGaw 's order and delivery department enable us to feature posters for almost any book promotion we have undertaken at very short notice , and its warehouse staff can pick , pack and despatch any quantity of posters from a large range with a speed that would make most book publishers ' head spin ( with a twice-weekly delivery and a next day customer order service , I think most booksellers would agree with me ) . |
| 23 | If both husband and wife are domiciled in the United Kingdom , any transfer of assets between them is exempt from any charge to inheritance tax ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s18(1) formerly the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 ) . |
| 24 | One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance . |
| 25 | The fact of canonization puts any work beyond questions of establishing its merit and , instead , invites students to offer only increasingly more ingenious readings and interpretations , the purpose of which is to validate the greatness already imputed by the canonization . |
| 26 | I imagine the wages for housework people must think that any work by women in the unions is a waste of time . |
| 27 | A report out today by the Association of Parents of Vaccine Damaged children , based at Shipston on Stour in Warwickshire , critisises the govenment for not giving any compensation to victims of the polio vaccine . |
| 28 | It remains to be seen whether a clear policy on multicultural education will emerge in the future or whether staff will make any headway in terms of changing their teaching methods . |
| 29 | The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur . |
| 30 | The guidelines replace previous advice that any relaxation of standards against active intervention by a doctor to end a patient 's life is ‘ not in the public interest ’ . |