Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 2 | I 'm not any kind of competition for her . |
| 3 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 4 | I 'm Theresa , but I 'm not any relation to Sheila . |
| 5 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | They made out I was n't any good at arithmetic , which I was n't , but that was n't the reason . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't any good at anything . |
| 8 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 9 | ‘ They said I was n't any use to Them . ’ |
| 10 | I goes well all the , all the questions were matters science and she were n't any good at that |
| 11 | But she was n't any help at all as far as Evans was concerned . |
| 12 | She 'd sniffle and nestle closer and even with the peculiar haircut I 'd know she was n't any boy . |
| 13 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 14 | But she was n't any trouble though . |
| 15 | half elastic and it 's like pleats at the back and er blue , nearly blue pleating and these two blouses , er I try , if they 're not any good I 'll send the buggers back |
| 16 | They were n't any use to Moscow dead . |
| 17 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |
| 18 | They were n't any good . |
| 19 | Both were loaded with works which , as Heinz Berggruen says , ‘ Did n't do well because they were n't any good ’ . |
| 20 | Keeley said girls were unreasonable because they were n't any good at sport — they had n't learnt any rules . |
| 21 | They were n't any good to shovel coals no , is to give it away again . |
| 22 | They were n't any good by themselves er , these things because I the other thing which you had to get from somewhere was output rates . |
| 23 | That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good . |
| 24 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |
| 25 | ‘ It is n't any fun being young , ’ said Lili . |
| 26 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 27 | ‘ Aunt Emily , it is n't any good . |
| 28 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 29 | He 's an electrician but he is n't any good in the house . ’ |
| 30 | He 's not any work . |