Example sentences of "[is] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language . |
| 2 | Obviously , they take time to adjust to being someone 's pet , but the love they will give is worth any effort put in . |
| 3 | ‘ She said ‘ A breath of fresh air is worth any doctor 's potion' ’ , ' Jess interrupted . |
| 4 | The widespread unease with several of the measures proposed in the welfare reforms felt by many Conservative MPs , demonstrates how difficult it is for any government ( even one with a large parliamentary majority ) to reform the Welfare State . |
| 5 | The ‘ look ’ in this stratum is as considered and serious a matter as it is for any Sloane , and just as rigid . |
| 6 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 7 | And that 's what the gradient is for any X along here . |
| 8 | The Reserve Winner receives a purple and white ribbon and moves up to the Winners if the Winners Dog is for any reason disqualified . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 10 | But she was no virgin before it happened , if that 's of any interest to you . ’ |
| 11 | If that 's of any interest to you . |
| 12 | ‘ If it 's of any interest to you , I scarcely even remember what I said , but if I somehow managed to upset you … ’ |
| 13 | It 's not being of any , of any er anything in there , that 's of any use . |
| 14 | Erm , one thing you can do is er , if you know that there 's a certain range in the spreadsheet that 's of any use . |
| 15 | That 's the only part of the spreadsheet that 's of any use , then you can do file extract formulas . |
| 16 | After a moment of silence in which she studied his face , she said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any importance , but they played a game . ’ |
| 17 | And it 's something to do with that and an embargo date 's a little bit like that , and in a sense , you may well be able to stop people actually publishing the thing , but they will still know and be working on it if it 's of any importance , so use embargo dates advisedly . |
| 18 | He argued that ‘ experience is teaching us that medicine can keep some elderly people alive for longer than is of any benefit to them . ’ |
| 19 | The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’ |
| 20 | Not that the difference between the lowest and highest estimate is of any significance . |
| 21 | I have listed below some books on pop-up techniques , if it is of any help to G.D . |
| 22 | I do n't know if it is of any help to the PH Project . |
| 23 | The question for these organizations is not whether capital is of any relevance to them , for it undoubtedly is . |
| 24 | They also wish to know whether punishment — be it physical or psychological — is of any use whatsoever . |
| 25 | I wondered if this advert from one of my very early Needlecraft magazines , about 1950 , is of any use to you . |
| 26 | This means that little material is of any use after the late afternoon and all the background material will have been written earlier in the day or the day before . |
| 27 | None of this is of any comfort to the unions , who are very strongly represented within the PTT and have been united in their rejection of the proposed reforms . |
| 28 | If it is of any consolation to you , I shall die now in peace . |
| 29 | nothing recommended with Goodey in that particular cause is of any good . |
| 30 | nothing recommended to Goodey in that particular cause is of any good . |