Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pron] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 2 | Their popularity , however , has not made it any easier to reconcile conservation and development . |
| 3 | It has n't asked me any questions about how weird my machine is or wh what are you doing with an Amstrad or anything . |
| 4 | Now we do n't he has n't given you any of those here . |
| 5 | As your man is single and has n't given us any name apart from his father 's , I take it he 's unattached . |
| 6 | I mean it has n't done it any good all the in Amy 's bedroom where where it had to put the copydex it 's all got brownish and , has n't it ? you can see where the . |
| 7 | In an elderly upper-crust voice , I complained about ‘ This business of trying to jam the other chaps ' telephones — y'know , it has n't done us any favours at all , frankly . |
| 8 | But he 's had his own little campaign to rubbish it now , just because he has n't got it any more . |
| 9 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 10 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 11 | To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting . |
| 12 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 13 | But this does not make it any less true . |
| 14 | This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body . |
| 15 | Offensive lack of cooperation may make the task of the constable more unpleasant , but it does not make it any more difficult than would a civilised refusal to help . |
| 16 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 17 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 18 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |
| 19 | Compliance with the Building Regulations does not give you any legal rights to encroach on your neighbours land , no matter how small the encroachment may be . |
| 20 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 21 | A more substantial criticism of this line of thinking is that , being sociological and stating what is the case , it does not offer us any positive conception of what could be the case . |
| 22 | But this incantation I use does not calm me any more . |
| 23 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
| 24 | A.3.2 If the Vendor notifies the Purchaser of a ‘ breach ’ prior to completion but the Purchaser decides to proceed nonetheless ( ie he does not rescind ) then the Vendor should not still remain liable for damages ; the Purchaser has foregone the opportunity to get out of the deal if he does not like it any more . |
| 25 | ‘ Matthew does n't love me any more , ’ she would whisper . |
| 26 | going back to him just cos he 's got money , if she does n't love him any more and she ca n't live with him because of the relationship . |
| 27 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ Getting used to things does n't make them any better , does it ? |
| 29 | I was told I would lose , but it does n't make it any easier . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That does n't make it any better . ’ |