Example sentences of "be any " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will be any hour now . |
| 2 | If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future . |
| 3 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 4 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 5 | Cook is the most observant woman , and parlourmaids have to be of a noticing cast of mind , otherwise they would n't be any good for the job , would they , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | People always blame the stranger when something like that happens — why should it be any different for me ? |
| 7 | According to my dictionary , a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem . |
| 8 | In fact , the rudder power of most gliders is very poor in relation to the huge inertia of the heavy , long-span wings , and there may not be any visible effect when opposite rudder is applied in an incipient spin . |
| 9 | Since they do n't have problems landing on their gliding site , they do n't see why there should be any particular problem landing elsewhere . |
| 10 | In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ . |
| 11 | Before anyone applies for a grant from the Social Fund they should check what money is in the estate of the person who has died , such as in bank or building society accounts ; whether there will be any money from insurance policies or charities , friends or relatives ( either of the person claiming the grant or the person who has died ) ; and any savings that the person claiming has over £500 . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the required energy coupling capacitors cause problems and can be expensive at higher current levels , and there does not seem to be any proof that there is a volume , weight , or cost saving over the standard Buck topology for any given equivalent performance level . |
| 13 | Given that this was all well-known at the outset what utter fool would believe there could be any money to be made out of such a system . |
| 14 | The nominal transformation ratio n in the instance shown is 4:1 step down , but unlike some other voltage-changing schemes using capacitors , n can be any whole number ; it is not limited to powers of 2 . |
| 15 | A sample rate of at least 8kHz is needed and the microprocessor can be any 8-bit variety with simple software . |
| 16 | ‘ There should not be any private schools . |
| 17 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 18 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 19 | Perhaps you have got to do this stuff for a whole lifetime to be any good at it . |
| 20 | ‘ There will not be any rights issues and my dream is that we can take a 20 per cent share in advertising markets abroad . |
| 21 | The avalanche of red tape surrounding events such as this ( the entire population of New Delhi appears to be employed handing out forms to fill in ) has to be seen to be believed , and it is by no means certain that , come 1 November , there will be any paper left to provide the winners with their cheque . |
| 22 | ‘ We have too much competition within the side for there to be any complacency , ’ Shelford said . |
| 23 | Remember , if a PIW links with a previous PIW there may not be any waiting days left to serve because waiting days are served only once in a PIW . |
| 24 | The Church can not be any easier to understand than its Messiah . |
| 25 | In other words , so far as I am concerned , unless and until we are prepared to deal with this demonstrated cause of inflation and want to do so , we are wasting our time ; and as soon as we want to do so , there is no reason to suppose that there will be any problem or therefore any reason for an incomes policy as defined . |
| 26 | There certainly would not be any conferring with the record company to try and establish comparable advances. , |
| 27 | He does not try to pretend there would be any viable alternative in a ‘ noble savage ’ existence . |
| 28 | An editorial in The Times , a firm supporter of Thatcherite policies , could ask on 3 May 1985 : ‘ If these obstructions to a society , based on enterprise and shorn of its collectivist illusions , can not be dismantled in six years , what evidence is there that twelve years will be any better ? ’ |
| 29 | She knew perfectly well she was going to make love to him sometime , so there did not seem to be any hurry . |
| 30 | I was told that there was n't going to be any nonsense like last time . |