Example sentences of "[subord] anything [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to her doctor for sleeping pills and a tonic , though he himself was a better tonic than anything in a bottle . |
| 2 | Both are as good as anything on a water which is not over-fished . |
| 3 | They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off . |
| 4 | But she sees herself as anything but a sex symbol . |
| 5 | The changes that have been introduced into South Africa forced upon the white minority government by both international pressure but also by the magnificent work at the A N C in Cosatu must be supported as well but we can not treat South Africa as anything but a pariah a , a , a national pariah until we see one person one vote , and a black majority government in South Africa . |
| 6 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 7 | She no longer thought of herself as anything but a tool , a servant ; something to be used , with no separate life of its own . |
| 8 | This doubt is especially prevalent today since religious faith is often viewed as anything but a matter of truth . |