Example sentences of "not any [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm not any kind of competition for her . |
| 6 | It is not breath , not wind , not any kind of elixir or potion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , not any hypothesis will do . |
| 9 | ‘ Not any man . |
| 10 | Not any man . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hospital managers are responsible for providing such services , not any unit of the Department of Health . |
| 14 | So there 's still not any divorce through yet although Margaret Now if |
| 15 | Not any year 's thing if we 're brutally honest . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | It was sheer chance and not any skill at all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This Gruyère is made in the high alpine mountains , the paste is soft and supple , the cut shows not any hole like butter . " |
| 21 | He 's not any work . |
| 22 | Not a line of it was altered , and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol . |
| 23 | Those really are not any part of my true self either , tells us . |
| 24 | ( Whether or not any evaluator should follow such practices is an issue we shall explore in Part Three . ) |
| 25 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 26 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They may attend the examination ( but not any case conference , although the Circular advocates their presence whenever possible ) and may submit information . |
| 29 | The basis for its attitude is clearly not any disapproval of an established regime but rather that there is no regime which has control , let alone any administrative control which has the requisite element of stable continuity . |
| 30 | All the ‘ furniture of the earth , … all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ’ , he says , ‘ have not any subsistence without a mind . ’ |