Example sentences of "any [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 2 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again . |
| 3 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |
| 5 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 6 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 7 | Well is it any more than a tennis court ? |
| 8 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 9 | But is it any more than a legend ? |
| 10 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 11 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 12 | Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way , any more than a command can be . |
| 13 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
| 14 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
| 15 | But not having a learning difficulty is no guarantee of competent parenthood , any more than a learning difficulty label automatically means the reverse . |
| 16 | No professional counsellor can " fix " or " caretaker for " a sufferer any more than a family member or other concerned person can do so . |
| 17 | This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print . |
| 18 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 19 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 20 | A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ . |
| 21 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 22 | If ethologists are truly interested in an ethology of human relating we have to drop the pretence that , given present knowledge , evolutionary arguments are any more than a game for the psychologically literate . |
| 23 | I think , I mean , he makes the emphasis here that the body is not any more than a tool |
| 24 | Characteristics may be refined by breeding to some relatively small degree , but such behaviour can never be fundamentally altered , any more than a dog can be bred into a cat , or a pigeon into a parrot . |
| 25 | Neither particularly wanted any more but a lifetime 's resistance to waste went deep . |
| 26 | I wo n't say any more because a lot of it in the back of the telephone manual , on facilities , so it 's all explained there . |
| 27 | Such models attempt to clarify the relationships between the variables that influence the buying situation , and may assist the marketer to predict the outcome of change in any one or a number of purchase variables . |
| 28 | These are related to any one or a combination of eustatic changes in sea level , local changes in sediment input , and changes in basin subsidence . |
| 29 | Borrowers can choose from a whole range of repayment vehicles — endowment , pension , PEP , interest-only , repayment loans , any one or a combination are acceptable without any loading on the rate . |
| 30 | How is a teacher or course-organiser to decide between one version and the other or , indeed , between these two versions and any other that a linguist might draw up ? |