Example sentences of "there [is] any " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think there 's any need to talk down to people , but you ca n't assume specialist knowledge . ’
2 ‘ You can see if there 's any disease from browning of the plant and you can see how well they 've been dried — they must n't be crusty round the edges .
3 So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’
4 Marie keeps cornflakes and stuff in the room , and if there 's any milk we have that , or else we have some toast and jam .
5 I tell Marie I 'd like some gloves cos I lost mine , and she says we 'll have a look and see if there 's any good cheap ones .
6 ‘ If there 's any cruelty involved , ’ Hughes says , ‘ it would be to the foxes , not to the sheep .
7 If there 's any song that I would like to do , but would never attempt because I would n't know how to begin , that 's the one .
8 Do n't start kidding yourself that there 's any way out of that .
9 ‘ If there 's any chance of being selected I must do it .
10 I do n't think there 's any point in thinking up any more daft plot-lines , since we 're already in Monty Python country .
11 I mean , you 're not suggesting that there 's any possible relevance — ’
12 I do n't think there 's any special approach to a crime story .
13 I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else .
14 Sure , injecting high doses of morphine , or low doses of morphine in a patient like this , contributes to his demise , but so does turning off the respirator , so I do n't think there 's any difference really .
15 ‘ I 'll be dying to know if there 's any news of Joe , ’ she told Angela .
16 ‘ Not that I think there 's any danger of anyone getting hurt , ’ he added .
17 If there 's any alterations , they wanted to know why .
18 ‘ If there 's any problems we do n't just leave it to one member of staff , we try to sort it out together .
19 His bones will go to Washington for study , his skin will be stuffed and exhibited at the Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico and the rest if there 's any left will be cremated .
20 American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation .
21 Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout .
22 Do you suppose there 's any truth in it ? ’
23 ‘ I do n't think there 's any need for blood letting , but if she 's still not well tomorrow you could give her an infusion of mistletoe .
24 ‘ If there 's any change , keep it , ’ she said .
25 Ask if there 's any chance of his getting it to Nell Richmond at Chateau Lake Louise by tomorrow night or the next morning . ’
26 If there 's any hate , thought Jack , real , blinding hatred , it 's in Ray Shepherd — not the Worm .
27 When it comes to broaching the subject I do n't think there 's any sensitive way to do it .
28 In other words , a sea burial in Coral Pastures.Just in case there 's any confusion , ’ and he smiled , ‘ he 's written down the exact co-ordinates . ’
29 Yes , I shall be in my office tomorrow if there 's any help I can give .
30 If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers .
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