Example sentences of "anything [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | American newcomer Donny Odom started well and finished unluckily , but Mark Lemon could not get anything right on a disastrous night which started with a crash into the safety fence and finished with an engine failure . |
| 2 | An , Anything like with a brand name on it . |
| 3 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 4 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 5 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 6 | absorbency The fact that cotton Wool can " mop up " larger amounts of liquid or Semi-liquid matter than anything else of a remotely similar nature is the most important functional property it has . |
| 7 | Modern genetic engineers already have the technology to write the New Testament or anything else into a bacterium 's DNA . |
| 8 | But it was unlikely that the Palestinians would accept anything else as a just settlement . |
| 9 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything else on a connection between them ? ’ |
| 11 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 12 | This extended to the headboards of the bed , the ashtray , the mirror-frame and anything else with a paintable surface , including the milk-churns and cartwheels which littered the hallway . |
| 13 | First it was the Birmingham Conference with axes , swords , knives and anything else with a sharpened edge to boldly go where no pest controller has gone before . |
| 14 | Part-time soldiering essentially took second place to a full-time job , and it was impossible to make the TA work as anything apart from a weekend occupation . |
| 15 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 16 | They behave similarly should a man appear carrying anything remotely like a gun ( for example , a cricket bat , a length of scaffolding or an umbrella ) . |