Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partners must not engage in any form of enterprise which is in competition with the partnership . |
| 2 | We must not prejudice in any way what that Committee is going to do about this matter . |
| 3 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 4 | In testimony before a court that will eventually rule on whether or not paintings from the Barnes Collection will go on tour for the first time , a conservator argued that several of the Barnes masterpieces should not tour under any circumstances . |
| 5 | There is no reason why a similar notional sum should not attach to any dependent person , including children , enabling payments to be made to whoever looks after them , whether at home or in some privately or publicly organised communal arrangement . |
| 6 | However , this should not lead to any particular problem , and it can be dealt with as a normal cable break . |
| 7 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 8 | If , however , you have started at the Bar , there is no reason why you should not apply for any local government post that tempts you . |
| 9 | Views range between two extremes : on the one hand , that man should not interfere in any way with what God has created , or on the other , that the benefits to society are great and the risks are unproven . |
| 10 | He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either . |
| 11 | Schools , at least , should not discriminate against any group of pupils and should strive to counter discriminatory ‘ social ’ factors . |
| 12 | Secondly , the rice-salt mixture also failed to fulfil the third criterion , which demands that the treatment should not conflict with any cultural beliefs . |
| 13 | I mean , you should n't feel under any obligation to complete the three years of your contract here . |
| 14 | Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute . |
| 15 | If the latter makes a search , the priority extends to cover the transfer , too , or the lease where there is a lease instead of a transfer ; but note that the converse is n't true , so the mortgagee must always search , and should n't rely on any search made by the borrower , who can properly rely on the search made by his or her mortgagee . |
| 16 | Yet say teams should n't win at any cost |
| 17 | Texts are specially valuable for supplying a lot of information which you may not acquire from any other source , either from elicited data or from conversations while out visiting . |
| 18 | For some clients , understanding the origins of their fears and stress is easy , for others many sessions of assessment and detailed analysis may not result in any certainty as to the genesis of their problems . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the factor may not result in any significant childhood disturbance , but may produce disorder in later life as other risk factors accumulate . |
| 20 | There are general references within the Pactus to Lex Salica , which may not refer to any individual title . |
| 21 | Trusts arise not only by a direct expression of intention but also by an inference or implication which may or may not correspond to any actual intention . |
| 22 | This may not correspond to any major structural difference between languages ; for example , the spoken forms of Urdu and Hindi are almost identical but are perceived as different apparently because of their strong association with Muslim and Hindu ethnicity ( Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 : 45 ) . |
| 23 | Most important is this extra income might not result in any attempt to improve care . |
| 24 | The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially . |
| 25 | planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ? |
| 26 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 27 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |
| 28 | Ten per cent could not think of any form . |
| 29 | Clara could not think of any scheme in which the man she had just seen could have been described as lovely , but she instantly invented one . |
| 30 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |