Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] not [vb infin] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 91% of their sample of clerical workers did not exercise any control over how they worked , they simply followed a set of routines without using their initiative . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ Now I 've found you , those old photos do n't matter any more . ’ |
| 3 | How easy the task of saving Spitalfields must have then seemed — merely a matter of money ( thought unfortunately its would-be saviours did n't have any ) . |
| 4 | Mucus secretory cells did not show any immunoreactivity . |
| 5 | Kohonen nets do not involve any notion of a concept , so there is no notion of a positive example . |
| 6 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 7 | However , waiting for further phonemes after the /p/ would also be inefficient because this increases recognition time without increasing accuracy , since the additional phonemes do not provide any necessary information . |
| 8 | This may not sound too drastic , but these overall figures do not do any kind of justice to the overcrowding problem . |
| 9 | The pattern of disabling conditions does not show any significant differences between the sexes . |
| 10 | Though a therapeutic response was reported , histological examination of the endometrial curettings did not show any disease . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that known international terrorists do not receive any support from countries in the middle east with which the United Kingdom maintains diplomatic relations . |
| 12 | Atkins says that elephants and complex things do not need any explanation . |
| 13 | Negative controls did not show any immunostaining and the positive controls always showed positive and appropriate immunoreactivity with all the enzymes . |
| 14 | Non-profit making organisations , public corporations and other government institutions might also have formally-stated objects in their constitution , whereas other organisations such as sole traderships do not have any formally-stated objects ( even though they will still have objects of some description ) . |
| 15 | Fourteen patients with complete supraconal lesions did not report any sensation during rectal distension , the remaining nine reported a non-specific pelvic sensation that did not prevent further inflation of the rectal balloon . |
| 16 | However , the catering department has been suffering from higher-than-average food costs and labour turnover rates for several years now , though the available records do not disclose any obvious reasons for these . |
| 17 | However , even in the hesitant phase , the planning of short clauses appears to have occurred during preceding utterances , since over 80 per cent of four-word clauses did not contain a pause in initial position , and nearly 75 per cent of three-word clauses did not contain any pauses at all . |
| 18 | The FIS newsheet Mihrab al-Jumaa on Aug. 28 denied FIS responsibility for the bombing of the airport , saying that " the Islamic combatants do not authorize any strike without having precisely defined their objective within respect for the rules of Islam " . |
| 19 | The dominant families did not display any strong national feelings , Croat or Hungarian . |
| 20 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
| 21 | Tertiary industries do not make any product but provide services for people or for other industries ; e.g. milk delivery , taxi drivers and librarians . |
| 22 | Er , several entries will use up additional memory , as the minimum amount of memory they will get used erm , but certain entries do n't use any extra memory , and in fact , in this column here I 've put an entry , a whole number six , seven , eight , nine , ten etcetera , into each of these cells and er that column there , still only uses forty eight bytes of memory . |
| 23 | The number of decayed permanent teeth did not show any association with risk of coronary heart disease among younger men ( relative risk=1.01 , 0.94 to 1.10 ) . |
| 24 | It would be foolish for politicians to accept interest group claims or activity at face value , since the signals from organized groups do not represent any kind of reliable picture of underlying citizen views . |
| 25 | In other words , modular structures do not pose any major threat to subject competence or academic rigour if developed carefully . |
| 26 | Albanian Nights does n't have any direct Mozartian quotations either . |