Example sentences of "anything [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American newcomer Donny Odom started well and finished unluckily , but Mark Lemon could not get anything right on a disastrous night which started with a crash into the safety fence and finished with an engine failure . |
| 2 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 3 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 4 | But not for anything close to the same price . |
| 5 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 6 | But I did n't think of anything else since the first moment I laid eyes on you , either . ’ |
| 7 | But it was unlikely that the Palestinians would accept anything else as a just settlement . |
| 8 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 9 | Okay , anything else on the green team ? |
| 10 | Anything else for the monthly meeting . |
| 11 | First it was the Birmingham Conference with axes , swords , knives and anything else with a sharpened edge to boldly go where no pest controller has gone before . |
| 12 | This extended to the headboards of the bed , the ashtray , the mirror-frame and anything else with a paintable surface , including the milk-churns and cartwheels which littered the hallway . |
| 13 | Is there anything else in an electrical circuit that behaves that way ? |
| 14 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
| 15 | Stage nerves are unlike anything else in the whole world , and many good actors will confess to them right through their careers . |
| 16 | The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world . |
| 17 | Whether control of these facilities by the CPSU fulfilled this requirement is debatable , but before we jump to the conclusion that we could not have expected anything else from the Soviet system , consider the chequered history of the First Amendment to the United States constitution , which reads inter alia : ‘ congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually , when they begin cautiously to feed again , they avoid anything remotely like the spiny prey they attacked previously . |