Example sentences of "it [be] in any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I do n't mean to employ it 's in any way dishonest .
2 Miss T. being an adult , it is doubtful whether we have power to make a restraining order of the kind which is often made in the case of children whose medical treatment is in issue before the courts , but I hope and believe that it is in any event unnecessary .
3 The incitement provisions in the Act do not really extend the law greatly , since it is in any event a common law offence to incite another to commit an offence , even a summary offence .
4 That itself is some forty million pounds below the association of Welsh counties assessment of what is actually needed to meet the needs of the community and it is in any event not available for general spending .
5 If it is in any way meaningful to speak in terms of a ‘ cultural dominant ’ , then arguably the nouveau roman could not have achieved this without the support of like-minded critics .
6 He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep .
7 ‘ Because we want to know if it is in any way connected to the prince 's state visit .
8 The fact that a rug is signed or dated does not imply that it is in any way superior to similar items that have not been inscribed , although it is fair to say that weavers rarely sign inferior examples of their work .
9 To suggest that it is in any way a radical new Tory revolution for the 1990s is far from the truth .
10 I do not think that it is in any way insulting to say that the epithet , ’ Clyde-built ’ , which was a badge of quality in the last century , was getting somewhat tarnished during the post-war years .
11 The more esoteric or higher understanding of the reality of one universal , wholistic creative principle ( monism ) is embraced only by those who are able to transcend the confines of theistic involvement as it is in any country or civilization . ’
12 It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece .
13 One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number .
14 It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition .
15 ( And it is in any case a singularly unromantic name ! )
16 Arcturus can be found by following round the curve of Ursa Major , but it is in any case quite unmistakable ; it has a K-type spectrum , and is a lovely light orange , so that in binoculars it is beautiful .
17 Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously .
18 It is in any case always sound practice to start with two machines rather than one , so that there is a backup machine if one breaks down .
19 The assumption is offensive to teachers ; it encourages professional dependency ; it discourages professional autonomy and self-motivated development ; and it is in any case empirically unsustainable .
20 Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously .
21 It is in any case impossible to come empty-handed .
22 Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool .
23 Oh it oh it is in any magazine
24 It was in any event difficult to see what compromise could satisfy both Buenos Aires and London .
25 It was in any event unnecessary .
26 Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance .
27 If Greg Martin was alive then was it possible … was there the chance that it was in any way possible that her mother was alive too ?
28 It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did .
29 It was in any case no easy task to remove the hard stubble which covered Marcus 's face and neck , though it had been cut as short as possible by Irina 's nail-scissors .
30 It was in any case too late for the League of Nations to move against the Nazis since they were in power as a result of legal democratic electoral procedures .
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