Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democratic governor of Arkansas , who easily beat President George Bush in Tuesday 's election , talked to world leaders , including Russian President Boris Yeltsin but was careful not to hint at any policy stances or initiatives . |
| 2 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 3 | Bigger fish might indeed be caught , but in the meantime they have grown into killer sharks with teeth big enough to bite through any net we might attempt to throw over them . |
| 4 | When everybody is for clean air and against pollution [ it is indeed ] difficult politically to vote for any amendment that would be characterized by the press as weakening the bill . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |