Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] not [vb infin] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them .
2 As delivered , these cars did not carry any destination equipment , but new cars delivered in 1906 and subsequently , had wooden destination boxes on tall stanchions above the ends of the upper deck .
3 It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) .
4 In addition one of the subjects did not show any fluctuations in risk ratings , in debriefing he explained that he certainly could imagine many risky situations , but he had not encountered any during the drive .
5 1.6 6 Universities , 6 Colleges and 2 Polytechnics did not report any Inset courses generally concerned with Language in Education .
6 Will 's sister Joan was married and had a little boy , but Will 's brothers did n't have any children .
7 And a lot of the shopkeepers did n't have any kind of insurance at all .
8 The parents did n't have any sympathy for people that joyrided , and they could n't understand why they did it .
9 Though a therapeutic response was reported , histological examination of the endometrial curettings did not show any disease .
10 Consistent with this idea , Myc mutants with deletions of either helix-loop-helix or leucine zipper domains did not show any activity , though positive controls are not available for these mutants ( data not shown ) .
11 But the notion of virtue implicit in such hospitalities did not include any expectation of a permanent elimination of differences in wealth .
12 Welsh district libraries did not note any courses on offer from their local authorities , though most Welsh Counties did .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Seventeen suppliers did n't give any details to measure water quality against , no information on maximum permitted levels and no data about how many samples exceeded the maximum .
16 Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics .
17 The group spokesman said its members did n't need any lessons in either cross community co-operation , tolerance or good neighbourliness from what he described as ‘ the bigots of the Orange and Black Orders ’ .
18 Negative controls did not show any immunostaining and the positive controls always showed positive and appropriate immunoreactivity with all the enzymes .
19 These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other .
20 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 ) .
21 Our recommendations on the teaching of knowledge about language had to be accompanied by an insistence that our policies did not necessitate any change in good teaching practice .
22 Most DN10 primer pairs did not amplify any products when normal human genomic DNA was used as template ( data not shown ) , suggesting that the human P gene contains many large intervening sequences .
23 Of course , sensible managers would know that the accounts did not include any orders issued against which invoices had not been received and would , therefore , keep their own record of these so that they did not overcommit the budget .
24 The police did not prove any intent on the part of the possessor to use it to cause injury .
25 The police did n't give any ground and on the front line they handed out as much physical punishment as they received .
26 In the United States , senior health administrators stressed that their advice to doctors and researchers to continue working with AZT in the immediate wake of the Concorde results did not imply any criticism of the european study .
27 CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester .
28 Speaking in Beijing on July 12 , a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the participation of Chinese experts in the talks did not signal any change on China 's " indisputable " sovereignty over the Nansha ( Spratly ) and Xisha ( Paracel ) Islands .
29 Details of father 's occupation in cancer registration and mortality records did not suggest any excess of oil related jobs among the fathers of cases living in rural high oil areas .
30 Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me .
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