Example sentences of "[conj] not any [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thus together they amount to a concerted attempt to investigate whether or not any form of vertical behaviour is to be allowed .
2 It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent .
3 It was sheer chance and not any skill at all .
4 Not a line of it was altered , and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol .
5 Mike Coote , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division cites ‘ tactical ’ reasons such as price-performance for the decision to use HyperSparc , and not any inability on the part of Texas to deliver SuperSparc in sufficient quantities or at suitable performance levels .
6 It is this , and not any dispute about the existence of variable norms , that leads in practice to a number of differences in our treatment of ‘ speech community ’ and to some differences in our model of linguistic change .
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