Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end one dared not mention any topic at all . |
| 2 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 3 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 4 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 5 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 6 | Ivan Cooper asked the crowd to behave responsibly and stressed that NICRA did not want any violence or bloodshed . |
| 7 | She said she did not want any fuss , that she was fine , and everyone over there has been marvellous . ’ |
| 8 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 9 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 10 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 11 | This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it . |
| 12 | Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson . |
| 13 | Because UPH only received £4m in cash they , in theory , did not make any profit and will not have to pay any capital gains tax . |
| 14 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
| 15 | The Greeks at least did not make any attempt to conceal their ignorance of Latin . |
| 16 | Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements . |
| 17 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 18 | But the man behind the burger deal , cathedral chapter clerk Christopher Owen , said yesterday : ‘ He did not make any objection to this particular promotion . ’ |
| 19 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
| 20 | The letter did not contain any reference to Mr. Tee . |
| 21 | Owen , though , did not expect any difficulty . |
| 22 | No , and it says erm I really did not expect any Grace to answer . |
| 23 | Sixty per cent of 1800 managing directors interviewed did not expect any improvement either in sales or new orders and 80 per cent said that they would either not be recruiting new staff or shedding staff . |
| 24 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 25 | Touche Ross then took over , but did not sign any audit reports . |
| 26 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 27 | To the extent that the Home Secretary suggested that the Act did not involve any extension of the Government 's powers , this could be only because in practice the guidelines were being exceeded for , as has been pointed out subsequently , the phrase ‘ national security ’ is not confined to major subversion or espionage ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | This case did not involve any charge over property but involved a wife becoming jointly liable with her husband on a loan which he obtained from the bank for business purposes . |
| 29 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 30 | These cases must therefore have been regarded as distinguishable , presumably on the ground that Slater 's case did not involve any refusal to perform a service unless an unlawful payment was made . |