Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] anything [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 2 | Because of the passage of the st'lyan along the road there was a cloud of dust and it was hard to see anything in the failing red light . |
| 3 | Invariably some of them were drunk , others high on some weed , some too randy to notice anything but the opposite sex , and the remainder were too self-absorbed to notice anything . |
| 4 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 5 | Legal advice recommended that , as Mrs. X was unable to remember anything of the alleged incident and that , as it may not be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that , not only did she not consent , but also that XYZ knew that she was not consenting , the case should be dealt with summarily by the Commanding Officer . ’ |
| 6 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 7 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 8 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 10 | Mahmoud had been unable to uncover anything of a personal nature which might have prompted the attack . |
| 11 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 12 | The skinhead revival is too recent to present anything but a confused picture to the observer . |
| 13 | I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded . |