Example sentences of "any [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " 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 If it is difficult to understand now , it will not be any easier when the system is installed .
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 Tony says he was into raves until 1990 , when he got bored with the same hectic beats and ‘ could see it was n't going to get any bigger because the government was n't backing it .
7 And he did n't feel any happier as the weeks went by .
8 It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other .
9 But I question whether the ‘ intent to create legal relations ’ formula will in the long run work any better than the rules of consideration .
10 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 .
11 Well is it any more than a tennis court ?
12 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 .
13 But is it any more than a legend ?
14 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 ’ ) .
15 But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter .
16 Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way , any more than a command can be .
17 There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go .
18 There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state .
19 But not having a learning difficulty is no guarantee of competent parenthood , any more than a learning difficulty label automatically means the reverse .
20 No professional counsellor can " fix " or " caretaker for " a sufferer any more than a family member or other concerned person can do so .
21 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 .
22 Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC .
23 So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development .
24 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 ’ .
25 Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry .
26 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 .
27 I think , I mean , he makes the emphasis here that the body is not any more than a tool
28 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 .
29 The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own .
30 Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there .
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