Example sentences of "any one [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it .
2 Well , I 'll look in again , Aggie ; and mind you , see everything 's above board ’ — he glanced around the yard — ‘ no dealing in stolen property ; no organising of crime in any one of its many forms .
3 At one point , it even adopts the most severe , falsificationist version of traditional method , arguing that any one of its falsifications of the existing psychological theory of moral reasoning should lead that theory to be rejected .
4 It is also a living resource centre stocked with a range of information on the English language that is wider and more detailed than the contents of any one of its publications ( or anyone else 's publications ) , and able to adapt and respond to the requirements of the non-specialist language user .
5 The EPU recorded surpluses and deficits of any one of its members with each of the others , and settlement was made via the EPU on the net deficit or surplus of one country with the rest .
6 For instance , a manufacturer of household detergents might aim to increase the housewife 's use of any one of its proprietary brands , and also persuade her to purchase other company products for other household cleaning , such as washing up or spray polishing .
7 It is the object which matters and not any one of its elements . ’
8 In the quotation above only the first sense is intended by the author — the full potential of a word is never actualized entirely in any one of its uses .
9 Each suffix can take values 1 , 2 or 3 , corresponding to the three coordinate directions ; a vector equation can be read as any one of its component equations by substituting the appropriate value for the suffix common to every term ; and the repetition of a suffix within a single term indicates that that term is summed over the three values of that suffix .
10 ( c ) Restrictions on partners ' authority ( See Clauses 6 ( in relation to accounts ) and 18 ( generally ) ) No body of partners will wish any one of its number to have unlimited authority to incur liabilities in their firm name so as to make all members potentially liable even in respect of transactions which form no part of the normal business of the firm .
11 The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it .
12 This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt …
13 Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed .
14 Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll .
15 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 .
16 For the past 20 years , Gilbert and George have refined a public persona which is more famous than any one of their pictures .
17 Up until the 1987 Budget , individuals could base their final salary for pension purposes on any one of their last five years ' earnings .
18 Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise .
19 We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off .
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21 It must be combined with a 7 night stay at any one of our features Mombasa hotels .
22 bookings can be made at any one of our T.I.C.s .
23 It was this : that as her father had consented to allow her to make her home in Corcaguiney , her family should have the same right of any one of our daughters . "
24 While you can still hit the opponent with any one of your body weapons he , in effect , has turned away from you and can launch no direct attack without first twisting to face you .
25 When you consider the disruption to your lives if any one of your immediate family was disabled , I am sure you will agree it makes sense to cover all of you .
26 Any one of your tenants , Sir John , and I mean no offence , could be the assassin .
27 A second consequence of Alan Linton 's biblical approach is that any one of his diseases and other topics is likely to crop up in several different parts of the same book .
28 Though he could have stuck with any one of his developments and made a reputation , he is always looking for some new challenge on the lathe .
29 It can not be sensibly suggested that an estate agent is contractually bound to disclose to any one of his principals information which is confidential to another of his principals .
30 If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight .
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