Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 2 | Names were selected from the practice records on an alphabetical basis ( see Appendix I ) , which , although not strictly speaking a ‘ random ’ method , is not obviously biased in any particular direction . |
| 3 | Quinn sees large companies as similar to large rivers slowly moving in given directions , but containing within them various ebbs , flows and eddies which , while they do not necessarily contribute in any direct analytical way to the general direction , nevertheless in aggregate help to determine it . |
| 4 | But this apparent methodological superiority does not necessarily spring from any intrinsic properties of the stratificational model . |
| 5 | Thirdly , there is an autonomous definition of conservatism in which conservatism is not necessarily connected to any economic group and is not rooted in a particular historical configuration . |
| 6 | The Editor does not necessarily agree with any views expressed in letters printed , and reserves the right to edit correspondence where necessary . |
| 7 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 8 | Infection is therefore not necessarily associated with any symptoms and the majority of type I infections probably go undiagnosed and unrecognized . |
| 9 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 10 | But the knowledge-as-a-good-in-itself argument does not necessarily point to any particular kind of curriculum ; it can be ( and is in the USA ) used to justify a more general curriculum in higher education . |
| 11 | Mr Whitney-Long 's evidence on this aspect was unsatisfactory : indeed the weight of his evidence in cross-examination was that they did not so rely in any material way but relied on other matters . |
| 12 | Such payment , furthermore , is thought not only to detract from any generosity that might otherwise characterize her action , but altogether to cast doubt on her motives and her reliability . |
| 13 | Those who attempted to manage the political affairs of a county or district of burghs had not only to contribute towards any public project in their area , they were expected to be the leading subscribers , and it mattered little whether or not they agreed with the project in view . |
| 14 | Dan Air offered 22 per cent of capacity in 1985 but is not organizationally linked to any single tour operator and functions as a totally separate company . |
| 15 | The team thus took a much more radical , class , view of the problems facing residents in working-class communities and did not see themselves simply responding to any educational need or demand : ‘ … the educationalist should be forced to recognise his responsibility to intervene positively and constructively not just respond to any demand ’ . |
| 16 | Refusal of an assignment does not normally result in any disadvantage to the casual worker , but frequent refusals , even with good reason , are likely to diminish his chances of having offers made since they put his availability into question . |
| 17 | One can not therefore measure their use or their citation frequency , and the work is not normally published in any form . |
| 18 | However , the law does not normally allow for any order to be made which will directly affect pension entitlements ( see Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 405–7 ) . |
| 19 | These events are not normally associated with any coherent dream sequence , although they may be preceded by a feeling of floating ( reminiscent of the " aura " often experienced by people suffering from epilepsy , giving warning of an imminent convulsive fit ) . |
| 20 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 21 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 22 | Since the waves are not usually channelled in any particular direction , the signal strength becomes weaker the further the receiver is from the transmitter — in fact , when the distance between transmitter and receiver is doubled , the signal strength is quartered . |
| 23 | The third assumption of the dependency ratio is that those aged 65 + and those aged 0 — 15 are equally dependent ; the ratio is not usually weighted in any way . |
| 24 | These are more pervasive influences , not usually confined to any one time , and may be said to define the personal milieu in which the child spends his early years . |
| 25 | Subject to these qualifications , the prohibition of pecuniary interest seems to be an absolute one and is not further qualified by any requirement that the interest be substantial . |
| 26 | I do n't think we are talking about kept in reasonable health dear I think it is a question of living in an environment which does not genuinely support over any sensible period of time normal human life . |
| 27 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 28 | Normally the sale of books is confined to the sale of fiction and factual books not directly related to any course of study . |
| 29 | I stress that money relates to new equity and is not directly linked to any specific plans by Stagecoach for bids for SBG companies . |
| 30 | Like the Pactus Legis Salicae , the Lex Ribvaria is not directly attributed to any king , but it bears the marks of royal involvement . |