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 | But it was unlikely that the Palestinians would accept anything else as a just settlement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |