Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] any " in BNC.

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1 And the child storms off in fury because you do n't understand , and because this activity you billed as ‘ fun ’ has suddenly ceased to be any fun at all .
2 The January 1989 white and fawn dog finished second in a 631 metres open at Sunderland , and switching to Middlesbrough 's inside hare has not proved to be any problem .
3 There did not appear to be any police in the crowd .
4 There did not appear to be any certainty that the RHA would make capital gain out of the exercise , whether or not such gain might be applied for non-mental health purposes .
5 There did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances .
6 A police spokesman said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances .
7 Officers could not reveal how he died , but said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances .
8 She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry .
9 There did not seem to be any wounds or any broken bones .
10 ‘ Look — ’ There did not seem to be any way of wrapping it up .
11 In the lesson there did not seem to be any movement towards better understanding through exploring examples , as intended , or even towards using the guesses to encourage the type of investigative interactions the designer had envisaged .
12 And then , because there did not seem to be any reason to wait , they moved cautiously to the door at the far end of the wood-store and inched it open .
13 The crucial difference between special interest , or special damage , and genuine grievance was that a special interest was one greater than that of other affected people generally , whereas a genuine grievance did not need to be any different in type or intensity than that of other affected persons .
14 Though pedestrians and cyclists are to be ‘ encouraged to use the facilities provided for them ’ there do not appear to be any facilities other than the traditional footpath .
15 There do not appear to be any negative affects on the plants .
16 The ACOG guidelines ( 1986 ) do not specifically address weight training , which is becoming increasingly popular with women , but there do not appear to be any documented harmful effects .
17 Sadly , there do not appear to be any takers .
18 There do not appear to be any significant decisions on the word " technical " , but it is not difficult to contemplate circumstances where the purchaser may wish to absorb his purchase into an existing business which operates with different technology .
19 In the case of buildings and equipment there do not seem to be any special problems other than space and cost .
20 It poses an appalling dilemma for us all , because more and more money is spent on the CAP but the people at the receiving end do not seem to be any better off .
21 There do not have to be any homeless people !
22 ‘ They sat there holding hands , apologising to me because they did n't want to be any trouble . ’
23 Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons .
24 There did n't seem to be any good-time girls left except , maybe , Eleanor .
25 Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight .
26 She did n't want to fight with her mother all the time , but there did n't seem to be any alternative .
27 There did n't seem to be any winter in Florida , and the banks were thick with greenery .
28 There did n't seem to be any doors or windows anywhere .
29 There did n't seem to be any Perks about .
30 There did n't seem to be any traffic code or signalling system .
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