Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] any [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's the reason they went out with those particular mailings , not through any great process of choice . |
| 2 | Commonly enough , melodies are accompanied by harmonies which create atmospheric colour , not through any specific movement of parts ( i.e. rhythmic designs ) but through the beauty of the harmonies themselves and their special relationship with the melody . |
| 3 | He took slightly more interest in his two sons , Arthur and Alan , but not through any natural preference for them ; it was simply that with them he knew better what questions should be asked . |
| 4 | And Fry and the other new pop stars ( Human League , Kid Creole , Soft Cell , Culture Club ) also realized that pop works not through any old combination of sound , image and personality , but through their combination as a commercial package . |
| 5 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 6 | Ken particularly used to enjoy the murder trials — not for any morbid curiosity , but for the drama unfolding . |
| 7 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 8 | In fact , as we have already indicated , there can be little doubt that the most important and overriding purpose of comparative studies is not for any practical policy implications which may be derived . |
| 9 | ‘ I would like to think that Sparky still has it as his major ambition to play here and not for any other club . ’ |
| 10 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 11 | They will be designed not for any particular proportion of the ability range but for all candidates whatever their ability relative to other candidates who are able to reach the standards required for the award of particular grades in each subject . |
| 12 | My colleagues and I will vote against the Bill , and not for any obscure reason . |
| 13 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |
| 14 | Directors owe a duty of care and skill ; a duty of loyalty ; and a duty to act bona fide in the best interests of the company and not for any improper purpose . |
| 15 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 16 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 17 | Their cinema was purer because they were often more fully in charge of their product than were other film-makers working on serious movies , because comedy encouraged a more direct relationship between technique and content , and because the films were made not for any sectional audience but for the mass audience itself . |
| 18 | It is in short the question of the economic status and opportunities of those who make up seven-eighths of the community , not of any submerged residuum … |
| 19 | There is , of course , the immediate possibility that an ethnic factor , ‘ Basqueness ’ , identifies the group with Basque aspirations and so provides a dynamic rarely if at all available elsewhere ; and that this factor makes Mondragon a special case and not of any general relevance . |
| 20 | ‘ English ’ prayers were seen by these Asian children ( mainly Sikhs and Hindus ) as innocuous , even in some cases enjoyable , but not of any emotional significance . |
| 21 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 22 | Texts cohere , so cohesion within a text ( texture ) , depends upon something other than structure ; it is a property of the text as such , and not of any structural unit such as a clause or sentence . |
| 23 | The artwork , depicting scenes of Venice and Rome , is sadly not of any special value , says Mr Carter , who thinks the panels probably came from Stanwick Castle and were painted by a travelling artist . |
| 24 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |
| 25 | Kuznetsk is interesting in that , unlike Irkutsk , it was not near any main communication arteries and did not develop a secure economic base before the October 1917 Revolution . |
| 26 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |
| 27 | Today was not like any other day of his captivity , and Tug was afraid of it . |
| 28 | But my film is not like any other film , black , white or whatever , that 's been made . |
| 29 | It is not like any other business . |
| 30 | Meeting time not like any other sort of time . |