Example sentences of "not any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sale is not any reflection on the business — in fact we have had a brilliant year , ’ Lady Tryon tells me . |
| 2 | First , the lists mention only those performers singers , dancers , or instrumentalists who appeared on stage , but not any musicians who may have been placed elsewhere . |
| 3 | The scheme protected only employees themselves and not any members of their families . |
| 4 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 5 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 6 | Obviously , if no occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , then X is not any kind of R of Y , so disjunction has no counterpart among congruence variants . |
| 7 | I 'm not any kind of competition for her . |
| 8 | It is not breath , not wind , not any kind of elixir or potion . |
| 9 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 10 | However , not any hypothesis will do . |
| 11 | ‘ Not any man . |
| 12 | Not any man . |
| 13 | It is the brutalizing effects of warfare , not any pacifist revulsion against them , that rings through the language in which international politics were discussed in Britain throughout the 1940s . |
| 14 | Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture . |
| 15 | Where a related party controls the enterprise , the existence and nature of the enterprise , together with its name , should be disclosed whether or not any transactions between the parties have taken place . |
| 16 | Hospital managers are responsible for providing such services , not any unit of the Department of Health . |
| 17 | So there 's still not any divorce through yet although Margaret Now if |
| 18 | Not any year 's thing if we 're brutally honest . |
| 19 | You either go on and sing with Therese , the way it has been rehearsed , or you do not go on my stage , at all , not tonight , not any night . ’ |
| 20 | It was sheer chance and not any skill at all . |
| 21 | Whether or not any address is within the district of any particular county court can usually only be reliably ascertained by inquiry at the court office where a directory is held . |
| 22 | Well , we put all of that we 've not any offers anyway ! |
| 23 | Mike Coote , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division cites ‘ tactical ’ reasons such as price-performance for the decision to use HyperSparc , and not any inability on the part of Texas to deliver SuperSparc in sufficient quantities or at suitable performance levels . |
| 24 | This Gruyère is made in the high alpine mountains , the paste is soft and supple , the cut shows not any hole like butter . " |
| 25 | a ) thee Council may determine that his service as a member shall be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the Council whether or not any benefits are to be payable to or in respect of him by virtue of paragraph 5 above ; but |
| 26 | He 's not any work . |
| 27 | Not a line of it was altered , and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol . |
| 28 | Those really are not any part of my true self either , tells us . |
| 29 | Is there not any pubs . |
| 30 | ( Whether or not any evaluator should follow such practices is an issue we shall explore in Part Three . ) |