Example sentences of "be [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 5 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 6 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 7 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 8 | For speech recognition to be of any real use , however , the computer must seem to ‘ understand ’ the speech as fast as another human , the number crunching approach rarely achieves this . |
| 9 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 11 | In 1764 the vicar of Ecclesfield told the Archbishop of York that the local Methodists would ‘ not be of any long continuance ’ and the vicar of High Hoyland wrote : |
| 12 | How can this development be of any personal interest to you ? ’ |
| 13 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 14 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 15 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 16 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 17 | Nor would the dispute be of any great interest , because the explanatory role allotted to individual autonomy is so minimal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value ? |
| 20 | Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value ? |
| 21 | If it could be shown that , as some holists contend , those individual actions , decisions and choices which are appealed to in explanation , are themselves the causal outcomes of various larger states of social affairs , then individuals would not be of any special interest . |
| 22 | After 1930 when the concerted intellectual endeavour came to an end , the work of individual participants ceased to be of any theoretical interest . |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the draft guidance issued by his Department does not require local authorities to be of any particular size to deliver an effective and efficient service ? |
| 24 | ‘ I imagine , ’ said one rather earnest , heavy-jawed man , ‘ it to be like any other job of work . |
| 25 | A merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union will be like any other previous arrangements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Much of what 's on show could be from any English village . |
| 28 | Waiting briefly for the lift he told himself that he was no more involved than he would be in any other case . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | for this reason , pre-ordering of relations ( strictly , tuples need not be in any pre-defined order in the relational model ) and the use of indexes to increase speeds of particular accesses , are both options in many DBMS to improve their overall performance . |