Example sentences of "was not any " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 2 | There was not any suggestion of racial pride in their relationships with Burmese colleagues . |
| 3 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 4 | Accordingly , where a board decline to consider an application for a new licence on the ground that there was not any attendance by the applicant or his representatives such a declinature does not bar the applicant from reapplying within two years in virtue of s.14 . |
| 5 | It was not any supposed inherently violent trait in the Spanish character , but this element of desperation which made the Spanish Civil War the brutally barbaric conflict it was . |
| 6 | What ensured regular Parliaments after 1689 was not any legal constraints imposed by the Declaration of Rights , but rather the Crown 's chronic shortage of money and its dependence upon Parliament for taxation . |