Example sentences of "[prep] any [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not make the sort of sacrifice — the second mortgage , the move to a smaller house , the seven-day weeks , the abandonment of any thought of holidays for years on end -required of those starting up new commercial or , above all , industrial businesses . |
| 2 | So the problem before us is this : that whereas the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity is both logically and epistemologically indispensable , this distinction can not be defined in terms of any set of criteria under which individuals are re-identified and distinguished from species . |
| 3 | This illustrates a very important property of any set of lines through a point on a surface which are tangential ( share the same direction ) at that point . |
| 4 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 6 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |
| 7 | A function may be defined with any number of parameters of any type , and may return ( using = ) a string or numeric result . |
| 8 | A procedure may be defined with any number of parameters of any type . |
| 9 | 8 The class may be divided into any number of levels without increasing the number of teachers . |
| 10 | In sum , then , there is no reason to believe that , in a complex machine , the real processes can be inferred reliably from any number of observations of internal behaviour ( in the sense in which the changing of register contents expressed in binary numbers is internal behaviour ) , in the absence of knowledge of a quite different type : the language in which the processes have been expressed to the machine . |
| 11 | We had no right to involve Frank in any battle of wills between Mazzin and his colleagues , so we had to avoid a confrontation . |
| 12 | Yet , it is the unique features of Homo sapiens that become crucial in any comparison of animals with men . |
| 13 | Even the exacting Mary Crawford sees it as a desirable prize , ‘ a park , a real park five miles round , a spacious modern-built house , so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen 's seats in the kingdom ’ ; the absence of family portraits does not deter her . |
| 14 | Banned from the dressingroom areas and the touchline , he could turn up in any number of disguises from hot-pie salesman to unhelpful steward . |
| 15 | No correlations were found in any group of subjects between extracellular cyclic nucleotide values and the other biochemical variables considered , including plasma glucagon and atrial natriuretic peptide values , when measured . |
| 16 | However , companies without any experience of operations in Britain would be well advised to seek professional advice before attempting to carry out work likely to require planning permission . |
| 17 | I see this point of view from my own position as a third generation commuter between Harrogate and Leeds , and as a third generation commuter I do n't feel that it is a commentary on any absence of jobs in Harrogate or any shortage of jobs in Harrogate that I work in Leeds and live in Harrogate , it 's just something I 've grown up to think of as natural . |
| 18 | A good title to add to any collection of books on the Third Reich and , by today 's standards , reasonably priced . |
| 19 | With this system , video programmes are relayed from one central player to any number of monitors in classrooms . |
| 20 | Only a total abolitionist , like Clark , Linzey , or Regan , opposed to any killing of animals for human purposes ( other perhaps than in self-defence ) , could have serious objections to it . |
| 21 | Both could have passed through any number of hands before being finally installed in the Toshiba radio-cassette player used to house the Lockerbie bomb . |
| 22 | She went through any amount of stockings in a week . |
| 23 | A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language . |
| 24 | It means that a defendant who has incurred large costs both at trial and in the Court of Appeal in resisting a claim by a legally aided plaintiff , but who then receives legal aid in the House of Lords where he is finally successful , is ineligible for any award of costs against the board . |
| 25 | Reviewing current materials is a good first step for any re-evaluation of approaches to education . |
| 26 | The job cycle is thus about 20 minutes for any group of operators in either straight-line or dock assembly . |
| 27 | At any output of films below the equilibrium quantity Q * ; , the marginal consumer benefit of another film would exceed the marginal consumer valuation of the meals that would have to be sacrificed to produce that extra film . |
| 28 | At any output of films in excess of Q * ; , society would be devoting too many resources to the film industry . |
| 29 | Where at any stage of proceedings by assignment , transmission , or devolution the interest or liability of any party devolves on some other person , the court may order ex parte that other person to be made a party " to carry on " the proceedings ( Ord 5 , r 11 ) . |
| 30 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |