Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was furnished like any room . |
| 2 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |
| 3 | This dictum , though carrying the authority of Atkin L.J. , was uttered without any reference to authority and can not be accorded great weight as a general statement of law . |
| 4 | In return for the element of subsidy in this system , the Treasury was consulted about any expenditure which was abnormal by British standards . |
| 5 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 6 | Fortunately , he was diverted from any inquiry into the sexual morals of the camp by a report that boys were playing football on the Sabbath . |
| 7 | The point was given for any answer between 55 mins and 1 hr 38 mins . |
| 8 | Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault . |
| 9 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 10 | He was happy and relieved that the first part of the mowing was completed without any breakage . |
| 11 | A probability was assigned to any word string that could be formed from the spoken input . |
| 12 | Her neck was broken without any sign of a struggle and there are no reports of any intruders . |
| 13 | And the window was fastened in any case . ’ |
| 14 | I have seen 13 Premier League games this season and only one was officiated with any degree of competence . |
| 15 | It was after five-thirty on a Friday night , and Tom was expected at any minute . |
| 16 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |
| 17 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 18 | In a series of acts dating from 1317 , 1322 and 1328 he was compensated for any losses sustained through the renunciation of that claim . |
| 19 | There was no site at which phoneme identification was impaired where there was not also a disruption of oral-facial movement , although at one site ( in one patient ) movement was disrupted without any impairment of phoneme identification ( Ojemann and Mateer , 1979b ) . |
| 20 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 21 | This was done without any cynicism or insincerity . |
| 22 | I realize that this was done without any intention of hurting anyone , but maybe it would be good to point out that this term can and does offend . |
| 23 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 24 | The IOC Medical Commission was aware of this , and , for this reason , the presence of a Y chromosome was not a reason for exclusion ; a complete physical examination was done before any decision about eligibility . |
| 25 | It was said without any sense of tragedy , but with affection . |
| 26 | ‘ The decision to call practitioners RN was made without any consultation and was very arrogant , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Nyerere was the first to break off relations ; Nkrumah followed on 16 December , though the break was made without any display of hostility against Britain . |
| 28 | In the document Marxism was represented merely as a source of political inspiration similar to Christianity or " any current of contemporary thought in favour of progress " , and no mention was made of any merger between socialists and communists . |
| 29 | The Daleks themselves , when you saw them , were meant to be entirely different from human beings , with a city that was built without any regard for human concepts of scale , size and functioning . |
| 30 | True , he went to rouse Sir Ralph but he was searched for any weapons , he had no key , and even if he had entered the room , favoured son or not , Sir Ralph would scarcely have offered his throat to be cut . ’ |