Example sentences of "anything [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 2 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 3 | But if you put all of these together , do they amount to anything more than a restorationist position ? |
| 4 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 5 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 6 | The room was lit by a number of small reading lamps , none powered by anything stronger than a sixty-watt bulb . |
| 7 | Lambourn was never anything greater than a country market . |
| 8 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 9 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 10 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 11 | Anything other than a square-on approach can lead to problems . |
| 12 | The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides . |
| 13 | He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie . |
| 14 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |
| 15 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |