Example sentences of "have any " in BNC.

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1 That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight .
2 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
3 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
4 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
5 The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection .
6 If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend .
7 Try to find out if your youngster has any other worries or problems .
8 ‘ None of which has any relevance to you , ’ said the woman , ‘ but it 's nice and polite of you to listen . ’
9 By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things .
10 If anyone has any unrequired books — the Ranfurly Library Service particularly needs carpentry books — they can be contacted at 2 Coldharbour Place , 39/41 Coldharbour Lane , Camberwell , London SE5 9NR , ( 071 ) 733 3577 .
11 Nor has any of them had to respond so intensely to his wishes .
12 Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside .
13 But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up .
14 No other nation has any real friends either .
15 There is also uncertainty surrounding the role of David Murray , the Rangers football club chairman , who has acted as a middle man in the negotiations but who has denied he has any financial interest in the takeover .
16 The department said : ‘ We have no evidence to show that germanium has any nutritional value or is beneficial . ’
17 No one under the age of 41 has any experience of voting in elections .
18 Another troublesome shoulder , that belonging to Dean Richards , will be X-rayed within the next 10 days to determine whether the Leicester No. 8 has any chance of playing for England against Fiji on 4 November .
19 Having flatly denied that he has any intention of going to British Rail , Sir David Plastow , chairman of Vickers , yesterday announced that he has installed a ‘ safety valve ’ guaranteeing that he will not be solely responsible should his company hit the slippery slope .
20 None of these characters has any interesting or redeeming features .
21 Yet the question arises whether the ritual performed in the London flat has any validity .
22 ‘ My husband has married only once , ’ she told me ‘ but he has forgotten that he has any duties . ’
23 When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes .
24 The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye .
25 Whether he has any greater success in mounting a rebellion against Mr Heath 's former political secretary , Mr Hurd , than Mr Powell had against the former Prime Minister 17 years ago remains to be seen .
26 In the first Elizabeth 's time the superpowers were France and Spain ; but , while much has changed , Britain is still an island upon which no other nation has any territorial , ethnic or political claim .
27 The rights and wrongs of the Suez débâcle will be debated as long as the history of the mid-twentieth century has any relevance in world affairs .
28 The inspection , when it comes about , could be a first test of Mr Hussein 's new smiling face : he is already suspected of cheating , particularly when he denies that he has any biological weapons .
29 It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’
30 He can not form an idea of extension as such , which is ‘ neither line , surface , nor solid , nor has any figure or magnitude but is an idea entirely prescinded from all these ’ .
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