Example sentences of "not any [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sale is not any reflection on the business — in fact we have had a brilliant year , ’ Lady Tryon tells me . |
| 2 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 3 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 4 | Obviously , if no occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , then X is not any kind of R of Y , so disjunction has no counterpart among congruence variants . |
| 5 | I 'm not any kind of competition for her . |
| 6 | It is not breath , not wind , not any kind of elixir or potion . |
| 7 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 8 | Hospital managers are responsible for providing such services , not any unit of the Department of Health . |
| 9 | So there 's still not any divorce through yet although Margaret Now if |
| 10 | It was sheer chance and not any skill at all . |
| 11 | Mike Coote , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division cites ‘ tactical ’ reasons such as price-performance for the decision to use HyperSparc , and not any inability on the part of Texas to deliver SuperSparc in sufficient quantities or at suitable performance levels . |
| 12 | This Gruyère is made in the high alpine mountains , the paste is soft and supple , the cut shows not any hole like butter . " |
| 13 | Not a line of it was altered , and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol . |
| 14 | Those really are not any part of my true self either , tells us . |
| 15 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 16 | Accordingly , where a board decline to consider an application for a new licence on the ground that there was not any attendance by the applicant or his representatives such a declinature does not bar the applicant from reapplying within two years in virtue of s.14 . |
| 17 | The basis for its attitude is clearly not any disapproval of an established regime but rather that there is no regime which has control , let alone any administrative control which has the requisite element of stable continuity . |
| 18 | All the ‘ furniture of the earth , … all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ’ , he says , ‘ have not any subsistence without a mind . ’ |
| 19 | So far as dreaming is concerned , it seems that the most striking difference between modern Western culture and pre-scientific cultures is not any decrease in mysticism or Informal supernatural beliefs , but an explosion in the number of alternative explanations for dreaming . |
| 20 | Thus together they amount to a concerted attempt to investigate whether or not any form of vertical behaviour is to be allowed . |
| 21 | She wanted no restriction between them — not anything material , not any form of mental restriction either . |
| 22 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 23 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 24 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 25 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 26 | Perhaps our common reason is not any prediction about the number of cases of injustice that the checkerboard strategy would produce or prevent , but our conviction that no one should actively engage in producing what he believes to be injustice . |
| 27 | I 'm Theresa , but I 'm not any relation to Sheila . |
| 28 | There was not any suggestion of racial pride in their relationships with Burmese colleagues . |
| 29 | its only half an hour so if its not any good in half an hour , its neither here nor there is it ? |
| 30 | It is this , and not any dispute about the existence of variable norms , that leads in practice to a number of differences in our treatment of ‘ speech community ’ and to some differences in our model of linguistic change . |