Example sentences of "not [adv] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hitchcock 's keywell inlay is generally of a simple rectangle , whereas Mercier and William Smith are in agreement that the rectangle should be broken with half circles on the shorter sides — a decorative motif that was common at the time and appears on a number of spinets ( though not apparently any by Thomas Hitchcock ) . |
| 2 | There is not necessarily any ‘ problem ’ here . |
| 3 | Nursing and midwifery have begun to develop the accoutrements of a profession , but this development has been impeded by the burgeoning of lay-managers in the NHS , who have considerable power , but not necessarily any professional expertise , and whose prime loyalty is to accountants and not to patients . |
| 4 | Customs can make a direction to treat persons as a ‘ single taxable person ’ for VAT registration purposes if Customs ( not necessarily any other person ) are satisfied that : |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Even if the nature of these qualities of pleasure and pain are themselves unproblematic , it is said that what people want ( or want to avoid ) is not necessarily any kind of private experience , but just as often objective states of affairs in the public world , and it is thought no less reasonable to take account of wants of this sort than those for private experiences . |
| 6 | There is not necessarily any overall plan for the development and maintenance of the schedules . |
| 7 | The biggest , the Fortune 500 corporations , often take the question of corporate identity very seriously and , although the wages they offer are not necessarily any better than those of other companies , their facilities and non-wage benefits do tend to be superior . |
| 8 | It could encompass all members of the double-reed family , from treble to bass ; in addition it was often used in a general sense , simply to indicate an ensemble of woodwind instruments , but not necessarily any specific ones . |
| 9 | It 's not enough any more to have comfortable boots and something waterproof to slip over a jumper . |
| 10 | Marxism is rigorously true if History is totalization ; it is not so any more if human history decomposes into a plurality of particular histories , or if , in any case , within the relationship of immanence that characterizes struggle , the negation of each adversary by the other is on principle detotalizing . |
| 11 | The stakes had been painfully clear to Sartre himself : ‘ Marxism is rigorously true if History is totalization ; it is not so any more if human history decomposes into a plurality of particular histories ’ ( II , 25 ) . |
| 12 | Each table excludes not only any clients who died or moved out of the area before the periods ended ( for whom there was no difference between action and control samples ) , but also all those who at referral went straight into ( or remained in ) institutional care . |
| 13 | Presumably also the seller would then be entitled to deduct from the £2,000 refund , not only any loss on re-selling the timber but also the £500 just mentioned . |
| 14 | not only any money that we get back on it , but we lose the letting |
| 15 | not not any , not any good anywhere else |
| 16 | Far from mimicking the Statue of Liberty , the new statue holds a gun — not just any gun but an AK-47 , the weapon used by the army to blast its way into Peking . |
| 17 | And not just any republic . |
| 18 | A university is a place where there is research , teaching and learning ; but not just any research , any teaching and any learning . |
| 19 | ‘ Not just any shit , but the turds laid by — ’ He twirls the stick again and then points at someone I never seen before . |
| 20 | Not just any seed , mind . |
| 21 | He is a judge — and , as it turns out , not just any judge , but the judge who once sentenced Miss Madrigal to death . |
| 22 | Mind you it was not just any soccer pitch . |
| 23 | One day , in 1958 , it was Nicholson 's turn — and he had an acting job at last , and not just any part , but the lead in a new film . |
| 24 | Of course , not just any old fart can write in with ‘ please sir , some stickers please ’ and hope to get anything printed — we need good solid letter writing about anything you feel like in the skateboard world . |
| 25 | And not just any smile . |
| 26 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 27 | But then Tim Robbins is not just any old movie star . |
| 28 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 29 | ‘ Minch is not just any eagle , she is an eagle of Callanish where the greatest of our kind come from . |
| 30 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |