Example sentences of "anything [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it does n't have to be anything properly identifiable as a deed to communicate interpretable evidence . |
| 2 | Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine . |
| 3 | ‘ What on earth induced you to become anything so esoteric as a fuel technician ? ’ he demanded . |
| 4 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 5 | The passengers who use an airport will think it too barren of temperament to have anything so interesting as an atmosphere , but for the people who work there its moods are as mutable and contagious as any other place 's . |
| 6 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 7 | Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ? |
| 8 | She had never seen anything so ethereal as the scene that slid slowly past her eyes . |
| 9 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 10 | Housing is an important component of welfare : it is difficult to imagine anything more damaging to an individual 's welfare than the lack of somewhere to live , and this is especially so in the case of families with young children and elderly people . |
| 11 | Other tests of the same general type may be proposed , but none bring anything radically new to the picture . |
| 12 | Rovers dominated Friday night 's home game with Peterborough , but had to settle for a 1-1 draw , and King explained : ‘ Noone can say anything but good about the way we played . |
| 13 | Rovers dominated Friday night 's home game with Peterborough , but had to settle for a 1-1 draw , and King explained : ‘ Noone can say anything but good about the way we played . |
| 14 | You can use the whole thing with a mouse ( is there anything you ca n't use a mouse with these days ? ) , but we found that the I-beam cursor was anything but stable with a mouse . |
| 15 | Looking anything but delighted at the prospect , he stood up . |
| 16 | ‘ Your off-the-street pick up disappeared , then ? ’ asked Kim , pretending to soothe my brow and being anything but soothing in the process . |
| 17 | That development was anything but smooth in the West . |
| 18 | Margaret smiled at me over the table as if she had read my mind and was too happy to be anything but amused by the fact . |
| 19 | The very embodiment of horror and evil , he was slain by a Vampire and a humble mortal man possessed by a force anything but mortal in a way still sung of by minstrels and extolled by poets and playwrights . |
| 20 | Er , ca n't think of anything else specific at the moment . |
| 21 | He does n't mean that he wants to become mature or to quell the beast within or anything else comfortable to the understanding . |
| 22 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 23 | Edward Bristow and Jeffrey Weeks fail to see anything specifically feminist in the purity crusades . |
| 24 | ‘ But do n't attempt anything too complicated for the meal . |