Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 2 | Kano State Radio is the mouthpiece of the government of Governor Abubakar Rimi , which is a very different thing from being a PRP radio station ; indeed , the PRP , led by the late Aminu Kano , had the doubtful distinction of being without any mass media outlet at all during most of the period between the 1979 and 1983 elections . |
| 3 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 4 | A booking contract between a guest and a hotel may come into being in any one of a number of ways . |
| 5 | The matter particles are described by fields of one-half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle , which prevents more than one particle of a given kind from being in any state . |
| 6 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 7 | I prefer not to be under any obligation to you . ’ |
| 8 | He did n't look to be under any pressure at all . |
| 9 | As a consequence , although a company might have more or less orders at any one time , it is less likely to be without any orders than the one-man operation which can contract to only one customer at any one time . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 11 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |
| 12 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 13 | Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’ |
| 14 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
| 15 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 16 | When receiving professional aromatherapy treatment-especially aromatherapy massage — it is important to feel at ease with your therapist if it is to be of any worth . |
| 17 | By then it is too late to be of any good to anyone , and particularly dad . |
| 18 | These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use . |
| 19 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 20 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 21 | There can not be a satisfactory answer to such a question which is short enough for the circumstances , and informative enough to be of any value . |
| 22 | To be of any use as a tool of business control , financial records must be up-to-date . |
| 23 | Her cousin Elizabeth of Dorking 's £20 legacy was to arrive just too late to be of any comfort to her , and she died in the September , aged sixty-five . |
| 24 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 25 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 26 | And , if specific hypothetical examples of such computations are to be of any interest to students of biological organisms , they should be able to distinguish reliably ( though not necessarily infallibly ) between equivalent changes in the real-world environment . |
| 27 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 28 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 29 | Editor , — If operative mortality is to be of any use as an indicator of quality in cardiac surgery a system of risk stratification must be in place . |
| 30 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |