Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] not [vb infin] any " 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 The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’
3 If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation .
4 But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school .
5 Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations .
6 In the other 14 patients , barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction .
7 The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients .
8 Our study did not find any evidence of widespread dissatisfaction among older workers with either their employment or their employer prior to plant closure .
9 However , this study did not find any differences in morbidity between the two groups .
10 Luke Scott did n't merit any explanation .
11 The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope .
12 Stock , Aitken and Waterman had taken her under their protective wing and such master opportunities did n't need any convincing that the success of the soap could be translated into success in the record business .
13 Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
17 The recent report of the National Foundation for Educational Research did not attribute any decline to the national curriculum ; the interpretation placed on it by the hon. Lady and her hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Southall ( Mr. Bidwell ) is based on a deliberate misreading of the report .
18 Ghatak did not see any contradiction between these two approaches .
19 And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries .
20 The setting did n't matter any more .
21 Much to the disappointment of the Board , surveys conducted in 1940 produced negative results : typical of them was the meticulous investigation , in late 1940 , of a group of 1,119 London County Council children evacuated to rural areas ; comparing them with an equivalent group of London children in 1938 , the study concluded that ‘ a period of evacuation of several months did not cause any significant difference in the rate of growth of evacuated children ’ .
22 Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson .
23 1.6 6 Universities , 6 Colleges and 2 Polytechnics did not report any Inset courses generally concerned with Language in Education .
24 However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day .
25 Will 's sister Joan was married and had a little boy , but Will 's brothers did n't have any children .
26 Officially the Left Book Club did not favour any specific proposals for a Liberal-Labour alliance , but in effect its influence was directed towards this end .
27 And a lot of the shopkeepers did n't have any kind of insurance at all .
28 On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace .
29 In its report , the committee did not recommend any change in the law but that these matters should be left to the good sense and judgement ( hopefully ) of Cabinet ministers , utilising the Radcliffe guidelines .
30 Although we had excellent training schemes for our general customs work at this period cutter crews did not receive any specialised instruction for crewing duties .
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