Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 I was not dishonest in any way .
2 One group of problems is not specific to any organ system .
3 The descriptor is not specific to any language .
4 The the money is not specific to any
5 In the table the value for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis is not attributable to any of the source studies .
6 Peter Marsden , Inverclyde 's director of housing , said the decision not to fit the £5 alarms was not attributable to any single factor , although the council had to set funding priorities , such as keeping houses watertight .
7 Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening …
8 So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch .
9 Especially after Bishop Wishart visited him and announced that Seton was not guilty of any involvement in the King 's death . ’
10 ‘ It has long been the law that when a man pleads guilty to an indictment the trial judge can permit him to change his plea to not guilty at any time before the case is finally disposed of by sentence or otherwise .
11 Under pressure from Russian nationalists , however , Yeltsin had made increasingly overt statements in the weeks preceding his visit suggesting that the time was not right for any major alteration in the status of the disputed territory , and calling for greater Japanese flexibility on the issue of the sovereignty of the islands .
12 Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ .
13 The mood in the Santerre household was not conducive to any more festive banquets or grand meals .
14 Other , less molecular , biologists had protested in outrage that what was true for E. coli was not necessarily true for E.lephant , that biology has its diversity as well as its universals and that multicellular organisms with complex brains are not merely aggregates of 10 or so single cells ; the properties of systems of cells include relationships between those cells which are not inherent in any single unit .
15 And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population .
16 The need for punctuality was not due to any desire for ‘ saving time ’ but because the strict regulation of time was needed to help maintain the discipline of monastic life .
17 I exclude from the question of compensation the element of injury to the eye , which I feel was accidental and not due to any negligence . ’
18 We now understand that this cancellation followed a contractual dispute between the promoter and Mr O'Connor 's management , and the inadequacy of the promotion of the event , and was not due to any lack of public interest as suggested in our report .
19 We confirmed that this result was not due to any differences in the amounts of DNA used in each lane of the Southern blot , because a second Xq22 marker detected restriction fragments in all samples .
20 Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 , a hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to make good any loss of or damage to a guest 's property even though it was not due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel .
21 It is simply a reflection of the incidence of disability and is not due to any unduly favourable treatment by the social security system .
22 His death was not due to any lack of care because they owned their own house and were reasonably well off .
23 But this shift of emphasis was not due to any direct influence from the Formalists whom , as I have said , the New Critics did not know ; it was due to the influence of a figure much closer to home , the poet T.S .
24 many of the children came from homes where the houses were decent , where the wages were good , and where , apparently , the state of the children was not due to any real defect in the conditions under which they were living but simply to the heedlessness , the shiftlessness , the carelessness and the ignorance of the mothers .
25 However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition .
26 The results from the experiment showed that , when pointing , adaptation to prismatic distortion of a target did occur and that it was not due to any learned mechanism .
27 The delay in starting such an institute is not due to any lack of effort by members of the Association of Police Surgeons .
28 As the unsatisfactoriness of the exercise was clearly not due to any limitations on the part of the participants , it had to lie squarely in the design of the exercise itself .
29 This is not due to any animosity towards the adherents of other faiths but due to the inadmissibility of such acts in the Tenets of the Christian Faith .
30 Contemporary corporatist forms in the UK need to be distinguished from classical conceptions of this concept in some way because , while they incorporate working-class organization through the recruitment on a personal and unrepresentative basis of leadership figures , they are not responsive to any significant degree of pressure for working-class interests : hence , authoritarian corporatism .
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