Example sentences of "be anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're anything like the GH staff , you 'll be wanting to know more about Stella … watch this space . |
| 2 | Now that particular force if they 're anything like the other forces that I deal with , ai n't under the stresses and strains that we are . |
| 3 | There just does n't seem to be anything on the , on the horizon . |
| 4 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 5 | No in the case of a premature retirement where there is enhancement erm that 's actually payable on the last banking day of the month so that will tend to be anything from the twenty eighth to the thirty first . |
| 6 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 7 | She wondered if this might be anything like the bananas that Mrs Parvis said were so exceptional . |
| 8 | The total effect was unlikely to be anything like the boost needed to lift the economy . |
| 9 | ‘ If she has , dear Mrs Pargeter ’ — Fosdyke was being almost intolerably gallant — ‘ he ca n't be anything like the great Haverford Downs . ’ |
| 10 | He said : ‘ He was completely out of his depth in this matter and never dreamed there would be anything like the £30,000 that they in fact took . ’ |
| 11 | And I never r expected it to be anything like the end result , I mean the reaction to it 's been fantastic in the last two years . |
| 12 | ‘ But in the case of such an animated film , there would n't be anything behind the cartoon sofa ; not only that , the sofa could n't be said to have a behind at all . |
| 13 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 14 | It may be doubted , however , whether there would be anything in the nature of a public good or public interest defence available as a result of this provision , much less a defence that the words uttered were true . |
| 15 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 16 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 17 | Throughout these quatrain poems sex and religion mix , so that always ‘ The nightingales are singing near / The Convent of the Sacred Heart. , Whether there is anything beyond the sexual is uncertain . |
| 18 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 19 | The program stack is initialised to begin at HIMEM and , because of this , you can not change the value of HIMEM when there is anything on the stack . |
| 20 | The most primitive physicalist response to this argument is to deny the claim that there is anything about the mind that BS does not know . |
| 21 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 22 | What this sort of research will not have told you is anything about the advertising 's ability to stand out and attract attention when it appears in the chosen media . |
| 23 | But he can do this : he considers the petition , or Bill , as it is called ; if he thinks there is anything in the case , he issues a writ which requires the person complained against to appear , not in a Common Law Court , but before himself , and answer the petition on oath . |
| 24 | A replicator is anything in the universe of which copies are made . |
| 25 | If there is anything in the distinction I believe that the term Cabinet Committee ought to be kept for Ministerial committees and perhaps for committees of officials directly subordinate to a Ministerial committee ; but I am far from certain that the distinction is worth making . |
| 26 | The unions say he did but , crucially , neither British Coal nor Mr Heseltine say there is anything in the document to lead to this interpretation . |
| 27 | We turn now to the question whether there is anything in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 which has altered the position . |
| 28 | Where we could ideally then I think I 'd move I Saw Three Ships , if if this is anything like the order , |
| 29 | I may read the papers , or perhaps just stay in bed wondering if there 's anything on the doorstep . |
| 30 | Erm I could go out to Harrogate and see if there 's anything on the Conference Centre there , |