Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] anything [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 2 | So it 's wrong to read anything into the failure of Peter Mandelson to be given a room — although the fact that he is dossing down in Tony Blair 's office is surely evidence of his continuing influence with the Bright Young Things of the shadow cabinet . |
| 3 | In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording . |
| 4 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
| 5 | They 've so inculcated this passion for absolute secrecy into the senior officers of all four services that no one is prepared to reveal anything without the permission of the commanding officer of the Air Force base or ship or whatever . |
| 6 | It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance . |
| 7 | Last night , when the Canadians , Americans and Australians were just arriving , it was still impossible to learn anything about the knockout format on Saturday . |
| 8 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 9 | He ordered a second bottle ; ‘ It 's almost impossible to prove anything in the spying world . |
| 10 | Are we likely to see anything on the scale of the Coventry commission again ? |
| 11 | By now , of course , it was dark and hard to see anything on the water . |
| 12 | But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’ |
| 13 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 14 | 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest . |
| 15 | But , as we have just said , it usually does n't seem possible to do anything about the job . |
| 16 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 17 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 18 | Because of the way Dr Kitzinger 's study was set up , she was not able to do anything about the stories she was told . |
| 19 | He had no idea that he would ever be able to do anything about the predicament . |
| 20 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 21 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 22 | Nor do I think they will be able to charge anything like the premium they used to ; in fact , it 's debatable whether they 'll be able to charge a premium at all . ’ |
| 23 | It would be difficult to prove anything from the VW — it got pretty crumpled going down the hill . |
| 24 | ‘ It is very difficult to achieve anything against the strength of the conservatives . ’ |
| 25 | But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post . |
| 26 | The family was still too upset to say anything about the accident . |
| 27 | It is unnecessary to say anything about the reason why leave to apply for judicial review was granted except to say that the whole or part of the reasons in each case went to a complaint that the particular composition of the disciplinary tribunal gave rise to an appearance of bias . |