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Example sentences of "[to-vb] anything [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with .
2	To provide anything like the coverage given by the LDOCE , a corpus of much greater than 5 million words is necessary [ Jelinek , 1985 ] .
3	First , any illusions that people may have had about Britain were soon dispelled : Britain still refused to accept anything above a loose intergovernmental structure .
4	It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location .
5	Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development .
6	But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’
7	The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is .
8	In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship .
9	Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated .
10	You you do n't have to know anything about the problem to specify them .
11	However , if Mr Chekhov decided to write anything in the future it would be delighted to have look at it .
12	Legal advice recommended that , as Mrs. X was unable to remember anything of the alleged incident and that , as it may not be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that , not only did she not consent , but also that XYZ knew that she was not consenting , the case should be dealt with summarily by the Commanding Officer . ’
13	Andy will to shag anything with a pulse as he says .
14	The conventionalist system lacks the capacity to reach anything like the flexibility of pragmatism , because any relaxation would inevitably involve the defeat of publicly encouraged expectation .
15	Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls .
16	The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece .
17	These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) .
18	Imbert has decided not to sell anything from the show because of the poor state of the art market , and with Editions du Regard is publishing a book of the exhibition which will sell , at a loss , for FFr 250 .
19	Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last .
20	You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room .
21	It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance .
22	The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online .
23	Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo .
24	‘ Of course , that uncle of yours did n't have the manners to write , never mind the decency to come ; but I 've long learned never to expect anything from an ass but a kick . ’
25	If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money .
26	To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material .
27	Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan .
28	( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm .
29	I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’
30	Auntie who appears to belong to neither Paul nor Kate 's family sends a pair of wool bootees too small to fit anything except a couple of radishes .