Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 2 | This would make a tempting combination , but that does not mean Paddy Ashdown should be in any great hurry to accept it . |
| 3 | An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project . |
| 4 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 5 | I do n't think he 'll be in any fit condition to do it every morning anyway . |
| 6 | Much of what 's on show could be from any English village . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think they 'd be in any real danger as long as you lock up securely . |
| 8 | Apart from medicines , there are many other potentially dangerous chemicals , solid or liquid , which may be in any ordinary home : for example , substances for cleaning and decorating , and killing weeds and rodents . |
| 9 | The committee said that because ministers occupied positions of power there were particular risks for them in any activity which overlaps the border between their public duties and private interests , however worthy the motives may be in any individual case . |
| 10 | Remember that , however complicated the embryological status quo may be in any given generation , each mutational change in the status quo can be very small and simple . |
| 11 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 12 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 13 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 14 | Waiting briefly for the lift he told himself that he was no more involved than he would be in any other case . |
| 15 | Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability . |
| 16 | It does not indicate what the velocity will be at the same point at another instant or what it will be at any other geometrically similar point ( i.e. a point at the same distance from the axis ) . |
| 17 | A merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union will be like any other previous arrangements . |