Example sentences of "[noun sg] have any " in BNC.

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1 Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening .
2 But in the absence of high stress they find no reason to conclude that emotional support has any general influence on mental health .
3 The department said : ‘ We have no evidence to show that germanium has any nutritional value or is beneficial . ’
4 If trifling Hope has any room to plead ,
5 For example , at the screening stage , discussed above , it might be desirable to establish whether the defence has any complaints against the original investigation .
6 Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort .
7 No-one above the pathological level has any trouble with literal language — defined in psychological terms as language with immediate sensory feedback .
8 Security is necessary if the data on a computer has any value at all , but the level of security required can range from simply making backups , all the way to sophisticated access control , encryption , virus prevention and hacking control .
9 If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually .
10 Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ?
11 ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’
12 On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence .
13 After all , the dealer is in a position to know whether the car has any serious defects .
14 By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things .
15 Ascertain what type of case each lawyer prefers and whether the lawyer has any interests outside work that assist .
16 When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes .
17 To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if the Agriculture Minister in his Department has any proposals to meet the Agriculture Minister of the Republic of Ireland to discuss co-operation .
18 The real question is whether the employee has any power over customers .
19 Unfortunately , if the enemy has any sense , he will know this .
20 Even if you rarely stretch the G 's exceptional 2.9-ton towing limit , or test the new drivetrain which keeps you mobile even if only one wheel has any grip , at least you can savour the high , commanding view every time you slip behind the wheel .
21 Both are concerned to see if the term has any value in explanation .
22 I 'm not the least bit religious so the idea of a priest having any influence on my life is ridiculous .
23 When the Community belatedly recognised the de facto independence of the Yugoslav republics , it was acting too late for its recognition to have any effect beyond aggravating the fighting .
24 Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories .
25 The only problem is that you ca n't get enough of this material in pills and capsules to provide enough bulk to have any realistically helpful effect in filling the stomach .
26 It may turn out that the distinctive features of a causal story associated with semantic content are precisely those that require the language of belief , desire and intention , in order for their isolation to have any point within the overall causal explanation of what happens when the speaker communicates with another .
27 Boardwalk was no flying machine , a big clumsy four-year-old who had yet to win a race , but none of the opposition had any form .
28 However , a spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) said in London on Aug. 25 that no section of the opposition had any interest in the disintegration of Iraq .
29 The effect of a term excluding the agents 's authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms would appear to prevent the other contracting party claiming that the agent had any actual or apparent authority to make such statements .
30 There seemed to be no jealousy , no discontent among them ; and the gaiety of the scene was such that I for a moment doubted whether unhappiness had any place in Rasay . ’
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