Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | well he 's dead brainy any way i n't he ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's funny for you , ’ says Kieslowski , ‘ but for us it 's not so funny any more . |
| 3 | He was n't quite so good-looking any more . |
| 4 | Then she remembered Guido 's threat that he could stop him working anywhere in Italy , and suddenly she did n't feel quite so relieved any more . |
| 5 | It 's not so easy any more . |
| 6 | There was nothing so simple any more as a line of days leading to this one , or another leading away from it . |
| 7 | Consumers — especially when demand for product is elastic and consequently fickle , or when ‘ consumerism ’ is prevalent and making highly visible any dubious corporate practice ; |
| 8 | My tits are not so good any more . |
| 9 | It 's just that I do n't think my English is so good any more . |
| 10 | I used to believe that , but I 'm not so sure any more . ’ |
| 11 | I was n't so tired any more . |
| 12 | By joining the pro-Iraqi camp the PLO effectively cut itself off from the moderating influences ( and financial backing ) of the Gulf states and Egypt , and rendered highly unlikely any prospects for a resumption of US-Palestinian talks ( broken off in June — see pp. 37547 ; 37626-27 ) . |
| 13 | The Association of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Transport Salaried Staffs Association have not held strike ballots , but it is highly unlikely any trains will run because RMT members work on the signalling system . |
| 14 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 15 | Then , quite suddenly , it did n't really seem so important any more . |
| 16 | But I 'm old and secrets do n't seem so important any more . ’ |
| 17 | So much had happened that it hardly seemed so important any more . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to be sad and pathetic , but I 'm not so miserable any more . |
| 19 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 20 | And I have kept to that , although one or two of them have stayed with me and are therefore not so young any more . |
| 21 | But contrary to Vi McKeown 's shining optimism , that night was the most uncomfortable any of them could remember . |
| 22 | She 's happy here , and if she 's not exactly helpful any more , at least she 's harmless . |
| 23 | Suddenly it was n't just fun any more , and his parents were not so content to encourage hi , He had a job as an engineer at British Aerospace , he had security , prospects . |
| 24 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 25 | So the idea is that the more difficult the the situation the mother finds herself is in the more likely she is to spontaneously abort and the more likely any retained er foetus is to be normal an and , and to , and not to have any defects . |
| 26 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
| 27 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 28 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 29 | He proceeds to draw upon Bernstein 's work in supporting the view that equality " is being used to make more difficult any possibility of evolving a system of education adjusted to the varying levels of cultural and mental capacity in our community " . |
| 30 | Ruth thought he was hardly aware any more of anything ; his eyes seemed blind , and his hands were clenched , but whether from pain or exaltation Ruth could n't say . |