Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 2 | The navy consisted of nearly 81,000 men , serving in 378 vessels , though only 285 of these were of any size , qualifying as first to sixth rates , and what really counted in any major action were the 121 ships of the line , manned by 70,000 sailors . |
| 3 | None of the nursemaids I had engaged were of any use at all . |
| 4 | At that time the value was agreed at £600 but it was subsequently discovered that only £200 of these spares were of any use . |
| 5 | Manuela no doubt had her personal preferences and tastes , like everyone else , but she did n't make the mistake of thinking that they were of any importance in the matter . |
| 6 | Nearly a million people ( a tenth of Greece 's population ) demonstrated in Salonika ; an opinion poll said that 72% were against any compromise on the name , and 20% were ready to fight about it ; and up to a quarter of New Democracy 's members of parliament threatened rebellion . |
| 7 | My Lord the defence admit that no such advice was given to the plaintiff but they deny that they were under any duty er to give such advice and it is pleaded in the that er the defendants will rely upon the fact that Mr er held himself out to be er an experienced man of business and as such it was not necessary on their part to advise him upon the adequacy and arrangements for the financing of the operation . |
| 8 | Well my Lord the issue is that the defendants deny they were under any duty to offer any advice about financial . |
| 9 | In Britain , although no one except Beaverbrook Newspapers were under any illusions that war was imminent , there was still surprise among German and Italian nationals by then resident in Britain that Conservative ministers ( led by Sir John Anderson , Home Secretary ) interned all aliens without distinction of friend , refugee and enemy , shamelessly abetted by the press of the Fascist-sympathiser , Rothermere . |
| 10 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 11 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 12 | These collectors , plus Barbara Johnston , were in any case in the market for the stellar pieces . |
| 13 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 14 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 15 | The other irony here being that these incomers , for whom the housing policy was in part designed , in order to prevent their housing needs from draining the Council 's coffers and ‘ despoiling ’ the Orkney landscape , were in any case content and intent on living in urban enclaves , particularly in Kirkwall . |
| 16 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 17 | The coming of sound was probably crucial in this respect as it obviously placed a new emphasis on the contemporary American voice and on contemporary settings , which were in any case cheaper than conventional sets . |
| 18 | Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces . |
| 19 | With a few exceptions , sixteenth-century towns were in any case little more than glorified military and administrative headquarters , supplied by a small population of artisans and petty traders . |
| 20 | Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes . |
| 21 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |
| 22 | With hindsight , one can read from their responses that the days of recruiting women as hand-setters were in any case numbered . |
| 23 | Everyone was aware that the days of women hand-setters were in any case numbered . |
| 24 | Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible . |
| 25 | Rapid changes of policy were in any case dictated by circumstances . |
| 26 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 27 | Lascars were in any case British subjects , and ought , Wilson contended , to enjoy conditions in common with British seamen generally except in the tropics . |
| 28 | A few large landowners were stirred by their consciences to build , for reasons of philanthropy rather than economy , new ‘ model ’ cottages and villages , but these were usually on their own estates where conditions were in any case generally better than elsewhere . |
| 29 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 30 | Most of the major provisions relating to the charter were in any case implemented only at the discretion of member governments . |