Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] anything [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 2 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 3 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 4 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 5 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 6 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 7 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 8 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 9 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 10 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 11 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 12 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 13 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 14 | Unlike my mother I can not draw anything but the curtains , so I was bottom of the class at this . |
| 15 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 16 | I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor . |
| 17 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not imply anything of the sort , ’ the woman said sharply . |
| 19 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 20 | One lesson seems to be that we can not tell anything about the consequences of taxation . |
| 21 | Maggie knew , even as she heard it , that Phoebe did not mean anything of the sort ; it was the kind of thing that Rachel dragged you into saying . |
| 22 | A true dye or stain does not leave anything on the surface that will obscure the grain , unlike a paint which is made by grinding pigments into a binding medium and , because they are opaque , will leave the wood a uniform colour . |
| 23 | I will wear his clothes , I will not change anything in the house . ’ |
| 24 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |
| 25 | Rocks , like gravel , must not release anything into the water — calcium is the biggest problem , as many rocks are made of it . |
| 26 | Gilliland is at pains to point out that this does not prove anything about the way eternal influences affect the workings of the weather machine . |
| 27 | But it does not reveal anything about the non-human or about the nature of the universe in general . |
| 28 | This rhetorical absenteeism is definitive of deconstructive reading where texts are seen to " undo " themselves , and the intervention of a reading " does not add anything to the text " ( 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 30 | Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions . |