Example sentences of "[was/were] anything [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 2 | Labour 's foreign-affairs spokesman , Gerald Kaufman , was anything but a unilateralist . |
| 3 | Yet Quisling was anything but a joke to the people he fought so hard to betray . |
| 4 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |
| 5 | Charles and Diana handed out final happy photographs of themselves together to their staff , though the meal was anything but a show of unity . |
| 6 | If Cornwall was anything but a land of rich squires and yeomen , it may also have enjoyed some immunity from the scourge of absolute poverty . |
| 7 | As Mr Smith admitted : ‘ It was anything for a quiet life , ’ and Jennie had her way . |
| 8 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 9 | If there was anything like a Foreign Legion story , or something like Hitchcock 's Lifeboat , when the characters had to ration out the water , you 'd slowly turn up the heat . |