Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [art] shred [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He said that even if the Budget measures did help 100,000 unemployed people , as the Chancellor forecast , it meant that ‘ out of every 30 people out of work , 29 will get not a shred of help at all from the Budget ’ .
2 If she did , he did n't know what he would do ; he had not a shred of evidence .
3 She was quite capable of going to the police and making accusations which , since she had n't a shred of evidence , could only lead to trouble .
4 Besides , as Minter was in the process of admitting , he had so far assembled not a shred of evidence to support his claim .
5 ‘ But I can tell you this , Ranulf , even though I have n't a shred of evidence , I believe the deaths of those two young people have something to do with the murder of Lady Eleanor Belmont . ’
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