Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 2 | This is not highly encouraging , and perhaps it is not surprising that although the need for formal systematic planning was noted in our sample , and the concept of appraisal was mentioned by a small number of respondents , evaluation was rarely described in any depth , although 62% of the programmes described by the data sheets indicated that an assessment procedure was employed . |
| 3 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 4 | And where a subversive message was intended , it was easily woven into any subject-matter . |
| 5 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 6 | Perhaps most important is the need to recognise that a balance of forces was usually operating at any one time : pressure groups for change , politicians , civil servants and individual personalities all had a part to play . |
| 7 | Bridges regarded his work as equal to ‘ anything that was ever written by any English poet at his age ’ , and it was much admired by Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | They were a very close family but in the years to come no gathering or wedding , not even simple gatherings , was ever held in any one of their houses . |
| 9 | There is nothing to suggest any direct seigneurial interest in the plot or characters of the tale ; although the comedy of Dame Sirith does at least assume knowledge and recognition of the conventions of chivalric behaviour , it would be absurd to suggest that knowledge of such conventions was socially limited in any significant way in the later thirteenth century . |
| 10 | David Scott , when strongly pressing the candidacy of Abram Robinson for a surveyor 's post in the East India Company 's service , encountered one of the occupational hazards of a politician in this period , when he found that his candidate was totally lacking in any manner of qualification for such a situation . |
| 11 | ‘ You can check with whoever you like but I was totally exonerated of any blame at the time , and I resent you and your family 's implications that I was responsible for Eddie 's death ! |
| 12 | The area in which the traps were placed was totally protected from any outside agency except scavenging by other small mammals . |
| 13 | This would have been a somewhat difficult task for the plumber , but he was probably restricted in any case due to the close cering of the corpse . |
| 14 | Following the peasant habit of referring to any elder as ‘ Mother/Father ’ or ‘ Grandmother/Grandfather ’ , the word was also applied to any gathering of older folk . |
| 15 | An open invitation was also agreed for any District Council representative to join meetings . |
| 16 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 17 | The chauffeur said that everyone at the hospital was regularly updated on any changes to the hospital 's corporate goals . |
| 18 | Each count was then corrected for any chromium-51 crossover into the indium-111 channel which is negitable if performed on completion of the study . |
| 19 | With her hands clasped behind her back , she was fully exposed to any eyes which might look her way . |
| 20 | The use of a widely understood and increasingly popular language which was neither identified with any one tribal group nor with the colonial power was a great asset to the nationalists . |
| 21 | Very little was officially known about any of them . |
| 22 | Supplementary Expenses — This cover was previously provided without any inner limit . |
| 23 | If the Lebanese Forces were seriously gunning for him , there was nowhere to hide in any case . |
| 24 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |
| 25 | For many Czechs the failure of the Republic was deeply demoralising , for it was never contested in any serious way . |
| 26 | He had no outstanding gifts , of intelligence , learning , or good looks , and was never employed for any important administrative , political , or diplomatic office . |
| 27 | Oxford , of course , holds a very important place in the story of the printing of the Bible since , apart from earlier editions , the copyright for printing the Authorised Version of 1611 ( which , strangely enough , was never authorised in any official sense ) , and the Book of Common Prayer , is granted by charter to Oxford and Cambridge University Presses ( and by licence to the Queen 's Printers , Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode ) . |
| 28 | The child was never imbued with any conception of what education was all about — ‘ I did n't recognize it . ’ |
| 29 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 30 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |