Example sentences of "by any " in BNC.
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| 1 | No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form or by any means , electronic , mechanical , photocopying , recording or otherwise , without the prior permission in writing of the publisher . |
| 2 | If you use the covenant form attached to this leaflet you can make each annual payment at any time , or by any instalments , you wish as long as you make the full annual payment by the end of each 12-month period . |
| 3 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 4 | What was true of Rodin 's sculpture is also worth consideration by any reader of a sculptural monograph . |
| 5 | The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association . |
| 6 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 7 | Similar remarks were made by Senator Mary Robinson , who also challenged the hierarchy 's intent in their statement to the New Ireland Forum that the civil rights of Northerners would not be infringed by any pressure from the Roman catholic church in an eventual united Ireland . |
| 8 | As pub designer Tim May noted in his address to CAMRA 's AGM of 1990 : ‘ By any objective standards , the competition was a disaster ’ . |
| 9 | Now the Palace Hotel was many , many things , but it was n't , by any stretch of the imagination , a palace — or , frankly , a hotel . |
| 10 | Although triploids can be pollinated by any other variety flowering at the same time , they do n't produce any pollen of their own . |
| 11 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 12 | While for those thrust into a position of ‘ ritual liminality ’ there is the possibility of becoming ‘ men apart ’ , of standing aside and though not necessarily following political alternatives posed by any counter-culture , undertaking the hero 's journey merely by seeking to comment on the social condition they now see with new eyes . |
| 13 | I suspect that the rejection of the £7m offer by the All England Club for the land of the Wimbledon Sports Club opposite is not by any means the end of the story . |
| 14 | If you are lucky enough to obtain a Sear 's catalogue , or one offered by any number of American suppliers , you can give your card number and order what is required on the order form usually enclosed . |
| 15 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 16 | Having been inspired to create a ballet by any one of the sources mentioned , choreographers have to decide upon the appropriate materials with which to work . |
| 17 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |
| 18 | A study of how people react in real life when affected by any kind of emotion and mood soon reveals how the movements of the whole body can change . |
| 19 | Bye-laws 17 , 18 and 22 deal with back-siphoning : wherever a cold water supply is connected to a flexible hose , the law insists that the tap or outlet is fitted with a non-return valve to prevent contaminating liquids being sucked back into the mains system by any fall in pressure . |
| 20 | The INPUT SHOTECTOR works by monitoring the current flowing in the ‘ live ’ and ‘ neutral ’ wires and is activated by any leakage of current to earth — perhaps through you ! |
| 21 | Any increase in these standards therefore could not be resolved by any earthbound human being . |
| 22 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 23 | There is , in one way , an admirable balance of supply and demand , and some applicants are good by any standards . |
| 24 | The vast majority of what are generally called well-educated persons in this country have , in the very process of their education , been impressed with the belief that metre is an arrangement of language which can be judged by the application of a mechanical test , and that the poet who produces a line which does not answer to the test is a fit subject for correction by any critic who can point out the discrepancy . |
| 25 | He could not be vindicated by any other principles , either . |
| 26 | For this is wretched writing by any standards . |
| 27 | But because the virus is ‘ really ’ vaccinia , the infected animal will suffer none of the ill-effects of rabies while becoming proof against infection by any ‘ real ’ rabies virus . |
| 28 | ‘ It should now be apparent to everyone that such a riot can not be dealt with by any football Bill , ’ Howell said . |
| 29 | Mocking Mrs Thatcher 's claim that Conservative policies had achieved an economic miracle , Mr Kinnock said after 10 years with oil revenues not enjoyed by any of Britain 's competitors , the country had 2 million unemployed , the highest inflation , highest interest rates and biggest balance of payments deficit of the industrialised countries . |
| 30 | Mr Palmer said that by any standards her killer 's behaviour was extraordinary . |