Example sentences of "do not [verb] [pron] any " in BNC.

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1 The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future .
2 Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted .
3 Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer .
4 But that did not make it any easier to break the news .
5 The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better .
6 He was , however , extremely discreet and did not tell us any results of the Cabinet soundings in detail .
7 In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice .
8 Cathy did not cause me any trouble at first .
9 Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’
10 Do not give them any .
11 Do not give them any alcohol , as it will stimulate further heat loss through the skin .
12 I do not care what any of you do any more .
13 Do not ask me any more , it is dangerous knowledge .
14 If you catch a guest doing this , do not invite him any more , unless it be to allow him to apologise .
15 He is alone , but not lonely , Ari thought , and I do not pity him any more .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting .
19 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 .
20 But this does not make it any less true .
21 This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 But this incantation I use does not calm me any more .
30 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 ) .
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