Example sentences of "any [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I should not care to put any money on even a single defeat . |
| 2 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 3 | WordPerfect Corp , Orem , Utah says that things are now in place for an initial public offering sometime in the future , but it is not prepared to give any indication of when the long-awaited event might happen . |
| 4 | Is a period of living together any indication of how the marriage will fare ? |
| 5 | Those of us in public life are aware that , whenever complaints of poor service come before us , there are always Labout Members who will blame either the absence of public funds , although they never make any reference to where the money has to come from , or the Government . |
| 6 | An extreme example of parental involvement in children 's sports is the phenomenon which Dorcas Susan Butt calls the ‘ sports parent ’ , the parent ‘ who pushes the child onward in the sport … sometimes encourages the youngster and sometimes criticizes , and will often go to any degree to further the child 's interests … the parent 's main interest is to maximize the performance and benefits of his or her own child ’ ( 1976 , p. 120 ) . |
| 7 | No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've had a flurry of enquiries lately but we ca n't find any file on why the village was evacuated . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Furthermore , it has been decided that Father should not carry laden trays of any sort for even the shortest distances . |
| 10 | The mouse works by detecting its motion across any surface in both the up/down and left/right directions . |
| 11 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 12 | She rejected the possibility , for the time being , of any alliance with either the Left Alliance or the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) . |
| 13 | Will I receive any news about how the Compact is working ? |
| 14 | Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . |
| 15 | Suddenly I was very aware of the vulnerability of my nose and front teeth , should they happen to come into contact with the granite of Porteniel 's pavements at any velocity above quite a small fraction of a metre per second . |
| 16 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 17 | Any conception of justice in personal behaviour , any theory about how the just person behaves toward others , will limit that area of personal sovereignty , but no conception acceptable to most of us will eliminate it entirely . |
| 18 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 19 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 20 | Rochester & Martin 1977 , 1979 ; Källgren , 1979 ) , the analysis of the ‘ product ’ , i.e. the printed text itself , does not involve any consideration of how the product is produced or how it is received . |
| 21 | If we follow the pragmatist in this order of argument — if we begin with individual official responsibility — we will reach his conclusion because we will then lack any appropriate explanation of why a vote for a checkerboard solution is wrong , any explanation of why a particular official should regard the compromise as a worse outcome than the outcome he regards as more uniformly unjust . |
| 22 | Any animal with even a rudimentary nervous system will be better placed if it can compute the arrival of impending danger or the location of valuable resources such as food or mates . |
| 23 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 24 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 25 | Successful fish photographs can be taken any place any time with just the single adjustable head flash mounted on the camera . |