Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 2 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 3 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 4 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 5 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 6 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 7 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 8 | It will be seen that this explanation does not touch the question of whether what is sought is in any sense ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 9 | Obviously , they take time to adjust to being someone 's pet , but the love they will give is worth any effort put in . |
| 10 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 11 | He never wears a watch whether racing or training , never records his mileage , and has no idea what his personal bests are over any time or distance . |
| 12 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 13 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 14 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 15 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 16 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 17 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 18 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 19 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 20 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 21 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 22 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 23 | Next year 's contest is in Barrow — and no-one involved is in any doubt what the result will be ! |
| 24 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 25 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 26 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 27 | Joseph Wolf , who later worked as an artist for Gould , once said , ‘ to have been in any way associated with Charles Darwin is an event in a man 's life . ’ |
| 28 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 30 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |