Example sentences of "[noun pl] did 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 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 ’ .
8 1.6 6 Universities , 6 Colleges and 2 Polytechnics did not report any Inset courses generally concerned with Language in Education .
9 Will 's sister Joan was married and had a little boy , but Will 's brothers did n't have any children .
10 And a lot of the shopkeepers did n't have any kind of insurance at all .
11 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 .
12 He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination .
13 The parents did n't have any sympathy for people that joyrided , and they could n't understand why they did it .
14 Though a therapeutic response was reported , histological examination of the endometrial curettings did not show any disease .
15 A foreign accent is an unknown quantity ; you have to be rather good at languages to tell whether it 's common or not , and most of Nigel 's acquaintances did n't speak any other language well .
16 Consistent with this idea , Myc mutants with deletions of either helix-loop-helix or leucine zipper domains did not show any activity , though positive controls are not available for these mutants ( data not shown ) .
17 But the notion of virtue implicit in such hospitalities did not include any expectation of a permanent elimination of differences in wealth .
18 Welsh district libraries did not note any courses on offer from their local authorities , though most Welsh Counties did .
19 91% of their sample of clerical workers did not exercise any control over how they worked , they simply followed a set of routines without using their initiative .
20 Fourteen patients with complete supraconal lesions did not report any sensation during rectal distension , the remaining nine reported a non-specific pelvic sensation that did not prevent further inflation of the rectal balloon .
21 The test for homogeneity in the five community studies did not suggest any significant differences among them ( p=0.16 ) .
22 ‘ The key point is that the studies did not contain any specific evidence that the drug was harmful ’ , said the minister .
23 Well remember though but the problem is with project managers did n't have any
24 Article 6 of the Convention also declared that its provisions did not preclude any of the following so far as the laws of the concerned states or conventions entered into between them allowed :
25 Seventeen suppliers did n't give any details to measure water quality against , no information on maximum permitted levels and no data about how many samples exceeded the maximum .
26 The dominant families did not display any strong national feelings , Croat or Hungarian .
27 ( vii ) During the forced landing the aircraft was substantially damaged but the passengers did not suffer any appreciable injuries ; the three crew members suffered varying degrees of injury .
28 Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics .
29 Although the possibility of this resulting in misdiagnosis is obviously present , follow up on this group of patients did not reveal any who had been falsely diagnosed as having malignancy .
30 By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed .
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