Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 2 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 3 | ‘ So you see , I am happy , yet I regret that I can no longer be of any assistance to you , ’ Ybreska murmured , ‘ deferentially . |
| 4 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 5 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 6 | It discussed computers writing stories , with out asking the fundamental question , could computer-produced stories ever be of any value ? |
| 7 | ‘ So it wo n't really be of any use to me . ’ |
| 8 | Fifty years before , gold had been discovered at Bathurst and wages had been spectacular , but those boom times were well over and the rush now was for any job at all and to fight to keep it . |
| 9 | So they wo n't even be of any use in helping them decide which subjects to specialise in . |
| 10 | The buyer could then be without any deposit money and without any property . |
| 11 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 12 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 13 | That 's never been in any doubt — particularly to him . |
| 14 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 15 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 16 | There 's no reason never be without any money . |
| 17 | AN OLD CAMBRIDGE toast is , ‘ Here 's to pure mathematics — may she never be of any use to anyone ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I knew you would never be in any danger . ’ |