Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme to the shy child is the unruly one who does not want to join in any activity , has seen every trick the magician performs and ‘ knows ’ how to do them . |
| 2 | Er I do n't think it probably that it does decide help you decide where the location ought to be , but that having said that , I would not want to minimize in any way er the views of my authority er as to the importance erm of the look of contributions from the private sector . |
| 3 | Happily I do not need to go into any great detail because on the central issues there was no great conflict between them . |
| 4 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
| 5 | ‘ Ken Barlow is one character I did not expect to survive for any great length of time , ’ said the Street 's creator Warren , 55 . |
| 6 | The rich and any poor ( risk-averse ) non-participants can not expect to gain from any revolution and will be happy to see potential revolutionaries bought off . |
| 7 | Mitchell 's ( 1950 ) study of villages in the South West is particularly relevant because the considerable variations in population change rates that he noted did not appear to conform with any simple indices of accessibility . |
| 8 | Control over prices and incomes is something which the government may or may not choose to implement in any period . |
| 9 | It was all around me and I did not dare to go in any direction . |
| 10 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 11 | Whites need to recognise that blacks can not hope to prosper in any numbers while they are confined to ghettos of crime , poverty and lousy schools , and that it is society 's duty to do something about it . |
| 12 | Ricardo reportedly stated that the government did not have to participate in any type of negotiation on the matter and defined repatriation as a sovereign act of any government over the status of illegal aliens residing in its territories . |
| 13 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 14 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
| 15 | They did not have to qualify in any other way , and neither will their successors who , like them , will be peers until they die . |
| 16 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 17 | Each miner in the team was an all-rounder and did not have to specialise in any single activity within the overall task of the group . |
| 18 | The developments that occurred : the extraordinary behaviour of certain sections of the press ; and the later career of the Duke of Windsor , provoked in me both short-term and long-term disillusionment ; but I do not intend to go into any further detail here , though I can not repudiate what I said . |
| 19 | I do not intend to interfere with any arrangements that you wish to handle yourself , but please let me know about all Medau special activities throughout the country ; especially those related to the Sports Council 's ‘ Ever Thought of Sport ’ and 50+ Campaigns and I shall be delighted to help if needed . |
| 20 | Kant then goes on to describe how Leibniz ( 1646–1716 ) , the great polymath , carried out field observations of caterpillars and similar creatures , being careful afterwards to return them to a suitable leaf out of harm 's way , ‘ so that it should not come to harm through any act of his . |
| 21 | Sometimes several chimpanzees may take part in the hunt , but they do not seem to collaborate to any greater extent than lions or wolves . |
| 22 | This does not seem to correspond to any community published elsewhere , but of course the environment is rather marginal for woodland growth at this locality . |
| 23 | And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings . |
| 24 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 25 | Within the field of Latin American art as a whole there are still many individual artists who have not received the attention they deserve because their work does not seem to fit into any larger pattern . |
| 26 | We do not know what sort of a variable it is ; it does not seem to fit into any category . |
| 27 | A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air . |
| 28 | He does n't want to put on any show . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to go to any Florida ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't want to go into any more detail than absolutely necessary . |