Example sentences of "as any " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 2 | Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person . |
| 3 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 4 | Stakeholders are defined as any group or individual with an interest in the company 's activities . |
| 5 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 6 | The fact that in the whole of South West Ireland there was not sufficient labour to man a new United Motors plant was not seen by the Minister as any kind of problem ; simply as a little local difficulty . |
| 7 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 8 | You are as distant from their worries and their rows as any angel . |
| 9 | Until last month , Kenyon was music critic of the Observer , in which role he was as ready to be critical of his new paymaster as any other critic . |
| 10 | The head must also make available for inspection at the school information on syllabuses , schemes of work and school hours as well as details of the arrangements for dealing with complaints and providing access to pupils ' records and documents , such as any HMI Report on the school . |
| 11 | Some scientists have argued that these tanks in themselves present as great a risk of a catastrophic accident as any nuclear reactor . |
| 12 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 13 | A surface may be counted as any continuous area of material without significant change in direction or angle . |
| 14 | White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock . |
| 15 | I do not offer that reading as any startling new interpretation ; it is a decoding of the text that many gay men ( and no doubt a sprinkling of perceptive heterosexuals ) have made . |
| 16 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 17 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |
| 18 | Ann Radcliffe ( 1764–1823 ) , novelist , the leading exponent of Gothic ( sensationalist ) fiction , SB 31 ; OMF ii 15 ; ‘ … as carefully boxed up behind two glazed calico curtains as any mysterious picture in any one of Mrs Radcliffe 's castles ’ : there is , in fact , only one ‘ mysterious picture ’ in Ann Radcliffe 's Gothic novels , the one concealed behind ‘ a veil of black silk ’ in the castle of Udolpho that so frightens the heroine , Emily , in chap . |
| 19 | Even apparently minor problems , such as any enclosure of the hands or restriction of finger mobility , can render a person less independent for this AL . |
| 20 | The decline of countries has as much to do with the loss of vision as any other factor . |
| 21 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 22 | The Teacher Placement Service has a key role as any in this . |
| 23 | They have a right to have their feelings respected and should be treated as any other residents . |
| 24 | I think that Mozart 's ‘ Sonata Facile ’ , for example , is one of the hardest pieces in the repertoire , as any player of a certain age who is self-critical knows . |
| 25 | It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies . |
| 26 | Merseyside , in contrast , has continued to reflect as much its disadvantaged structural and geographical position within the UK economy as any set of generic urban problems . |
| 27 | The fact that ‘ in order that training should be effective and consistent it must be planned and implemented systematically ’ was regarded as fundamental , and respondents were asked to provide information on training that constituted a programme , defined as any course of instruction with a predetermined structure . |
| 28 | Computer are , in fact , as any fule kno , the bloody business ! |
| 29 | Racist atrocity has been as much a part of the American experience of war as any other nation . |
| 30 | ‘ They 've got a good a squad of players as any in the division . ’ |