Example sentences of "[not/n't] any [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But even setting aside such terminological differences , it remains true that whether or not any animals employ symbolic representations is widely regarded as doubtful . |
| 3 | In 1739 ( and , later , in 1763 ) Acts were passed empowering the justices ‘ to raise and levy such able-bodied men as have not any lawfyl calling or employment … or do not make use of any lawful means for their support and maintenance , to serve as soldiers ’ . |
| 4 | And also er there was the Picture House then , there 's not any people remember it , next to . |
| 5 | Its prototype is not any opinion formed without judgement , but nationalist , or racist , opinions in particular . |
| 6 | Some structures merely seem to satisfy an urge to build but not any desire to simulate an existing object or building . |
| 7 | In addition , if any arrangement exists with any offeror , target or associate of either of them in relation to such securities , details of the arrangement must be publicly disclosed whether or not any dealing takes place . |
| 8 | Mr. Legge , is n't any change going to see the needy worse off ? |
| 9 | There was n't any way to do this tactfully . |
| 10 | I have n't any spirit to argue . |
| 11 | But there are n't any brats to show for it , are there ? |
| 12 | But you must understand that it really is n't any fun spending an evening with someone who is cross all the time . ’ |
| 13 | Seeing as I have n't any ironing to do . |
| 14 | Why did n't any women die in the war ? |
| 15 | And naturally Elise has n't any money to pay her own way , Leith thought , but , since she did n't want to part bad friends with her mother , she managed to hold back . |
| 16 | There were n't any incidents to get in the way . |
| 17 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 18 | Er , it 's page sixty-one and it 's it 's title is : Scientific Research , the Whole Truth , er and if you like I will draw the points out of the study and leave you to comment where there questions and where there are n't any questions to interject any comments that you feel appropriate . |
| 19 | Their sword cabinet routine ca n't have come from MFI ‘ because there are n't any bits left over ’ . |
| 20 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 21 | I have n't , I have n't any biscuits have I ? |
| 22 | ‘ There was n't any mark to show , bar a bit of a bruise . ’ |
| 23 | " If … we have n't any evidence to relate to the shipping company . " |
| 24 | The first location has you trapped in a lonely , deserted pub called ‘ The Nobody Inn ’ where you meet a depressed dragon who complains there are n't any virgins to kidnap these days … ( except Phil King of course , heh , heh ! ) |
| 25 | A man of fifty-five had n't any business to drive like a crazy teenager . |
| 26 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 27 | It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ? |
| 28 | so there really is n't any need to try them out you know . |
| 29 | I thought we decided there was n't any need to have a mental picture — a picture of the wonkyness of the three-dimensional space around the Sun , or Earth . |
| 30 | ‘ He has n't any right to interfere ! ’ said Melissa angrily . |