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Example sentences of "be anything [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There just does n't seem to be anything on the , on the horizon .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 . ’
5	She wondered if this might be anything like the bananas that Mrs Parvis said were so exceptional .
6	The total effect was unlikely to be anything like the boost needed to lift the economy .
7	‘ If she has , dear Mrs Pargeter ’ — Fosdyke was being almost intolerably gallant — ‘ he ca n't be anything like the great Haverford Downs . ’
8	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 . ’
9	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 .
10	‘ 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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .