Example sentences of "anything [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although anything less repentant than the way he was looking at her now , Folly thought , would be hard to imagine . |
| 2 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 3 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Was it ever anything more homogeneous than the sum total of the systems which were not communism ? |
| 6 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 7 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ he said in a hard voice , ‘ quite frankly I ca n't imagine anything more disgusting than a woman who drops all semblance of pride to run after a man . ’ |
| 9 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 10 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 11 | I live overseas , in an area devoid of music shops stocking anything more advanced than a plectrum . |
| 12 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 13 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 14 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 15 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 16 | She employed a series of nets in her art that seemed so insubstantial , Cleo could not imagine how anything as ephemeral as a spirit — which surely lacked substance in a material sense could be entrapped within them . |
| 17 | She had doubts , in fact , that he would even get involved in anything as routine as an affair ! |
| 18 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 19 | You do not even need anything as obvious as a party to start you on this slippery slope . |
| 20 | Once the attack has been made , the tiger 's secondary armament comes into play , if we can describe as secondary anything as formidable as the animal 's four canine teeth . |
| 21 | It 's hard to drop anything as big as a body from a bridge without being noticed — even at midnight . |
| 22 | This seemed if anything as purposeful as the gathering of the clan on the previous night . |
| 23 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 24 | anything else other than a piano same one but you 're in clarinet pitch in B flat or you |