Example sentences of "anything [adv] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it was unlikely that the Palestinians would accept anything else as a just settlement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |