Example sentences of "any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |
| 2 | Sharpe was among the staff officers who trotted their horses down the Charleroi road , past the Gemioncourt farm by the ford , and so on up the shallow hill until they reached the infantry brigade which guarded against any frontal attack up the high road . |
| 3 | In particular , we need to calculate the objective-row coefficient of any non-basic variable . |
| 4 | To capitalise on the computational advantage accruing from missing routes , we never evaluate for any non-basic x i j for which = K , since such x i j will never become basic . |
| 5 | Using the wealth of material produced by Haringey Council to explain the whys and wherefores of lesbian and gay equality , Mr Grant stripped the new Clause bare of any respectable pretensions . |
| 6 | That does n't happen in any respectable report , of course , but it 's the sort of ever-present risk that those of us who are responsible for production need to beware of . ’ |
| 7 | Here Corbett began to question any respectable citizen on the whereabouts of the Lord Bruce 's household and described to Ranulf the insignia of Bruce 's retinue in the hope that his sharp-eyed servant might discover someone wearing this livery . |
| 8 | They are nothing worth looking at , for they have green hair and green teeth and little pigs ' eyes and long red noses and shod arms more like a flipper than any respectable arm that could do a day 's work . |
| 9 | Reynolds newspaper declared it surprising that any respectable paper should advertise such wares . |
| 10 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 11 | The original proposal for this clause , which had led to disagreement , read : Any deaf person , or any hearing missionary , or superintendent of a deaf and dumb mission and society , who is a resident of the United Kingdom shall be eligible to ordinary membership of the Association . |
| 12 | They had no experience whatsoever of any deaf school . |
| 13 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 14 | do any sloppy kisses ? |
| 15 | So we do n't have any sloppy kisses ca n't sleep at night . |
| 16 | The Government should realise that , in this cruel world , a severe prison sentence is a greater deterrent to drink driving than any slick advertising campaign . |
| 17 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 18 | The Seayak is not only more robust than any glassfibre boat , it is more user friendly . |
| 19 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 20 | Automatism : Any involuntary movement of body or limb , e.g. epileptic fit , or under attack from a swarm of bees . |
| 21 | This reply raises large issues ; but chapter 5 contains a lengthy argument that if there is any non-inferential knowledge , some of it concerns things other than our sensory states — so why not sheep , for instance ? |
| 22 | Second , the patterns shown in Figs 1 and 3 have a combination of complexity and underlying regularity ( exemplified by the asymptotic f C =0.318 ) unlike any cellular automata with which we are familiar . |
| 23 | It was claimed that this was caused by the greater number of convictions , and the speed at which the increase took place , rather than from any perceptible changes in sentencing practice . |
| 24 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 25 | Nor is there any perceptible change when the decomposed ultimately crystallises at ca 450°C into a mixture of CuO and ZnO . |
| 26 | Unlike in other studies we did not find any perceptible effect due to sex . |
| 27 | To achieve consistently good results with any staining procedure requires a considerable degree of skill . |
| 28 | Charcoal filtration will remove any staining wood produces in your tank water . |
| 29 | In practice , we should find that any conversational fragment will exhibit patterns of talk in which both ‘ speaking topically ’ and ‘ speaking on a topic ’ are present . |
| 30 | We do not suggest that discourse analysts should spend their time looking for potential alternative meanings in what speakers say in a conversation , but we do suggest that the analyst should not simply assume that there is a single , static ‘ topic of conversation ’ in any conversational fragment . |