Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused .
2 This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it .
3 At the same time , you will have a full 30 days to consider the benefits of the plan — and if you decide to cancel for any reason , you can return the policy to PPP without obligation .
4 The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education .
5 The central fact to acknowledge about any sort of storage is that there is rarely enough of it , and this is certainly true in the kitchen .
6 Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’
7 He may even refuse to search for any answer at all , though expressing the deepest need for one .
8 Incomes policies were seen as crucial to help solve our problems , yet over and over again governments found that political pressures made these very difficult to sustain for any length of time .
9 It is good practice to go through any document before parting with it and eliminate any word that is not essential to conveying the precise meaning intended .
10 On this the spokesman said , ‘ the Vulcan will no be flown any more ’ adding , ‘ it would be down to an acceptable purchaser to arrange for any ferrying . ’
11 To think ; to search after any truth or fact .
12 He was the man she wanted to be with for the rest of her life and she was willing to jump through any hoop and over any hurdle to win him .
13 Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking .
14 With respect , it is submitted , that to the extent that the observation may be characterized as seeking to compensate for any lack of clarity in the formulation of the rule in Pepper v. Hart , by the threat of judicial orders for costs , this approach is wrong in principle .
15 The principal strengths of the human information processing system lie in its ability to make selective use of available visual cues and to utilise an understanding of the text to compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus .
16 The Purchaser should rely on the normal contractual measure of damages to compensate for any breach of Warranties — ie the difference between what the Business would have been worth had the warranty been true and what it is actually worth in the light of the breach .
17 Outside public sector employment , which offers transferable pension rights , occupational pension benefits are maximised by minimal job changing or by an ability to compensate for any loss of pension rights on job change through a better remunerated new job .
18 ‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’
19 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day .
20 But at least they did n't need to worry about any area that came under Michael Stein 's remit .
21 Any review of the structures is not likely to stand for any number of years , it 's not likely to get absolutely right , erm , and so be flexible about your approach .
22 So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all .
23 To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol .
24 If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements .
25 It is still too soon to comment with any authority on the likely form of privatisation .
26 The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement .
27 Not that , nowadays Gordon Hamilton is allowed to fade into any sort of anonymity .
28 Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability .
29 Oh you wo n't be able to come in any day with me next week will you ?
30 Indubitably a noble metal , non-tarnishing and long wearing , it proved difficult to refine and even more difficult to work in any quantity .
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