Example sentences of "of [v-ing] anything [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 2 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 3 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 4 | We would never dream of beginning anything of this kind without gaining the views of local residents . |
| 5 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 6 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 7 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 8 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 9 | Now none of you would dream of doing anything like that . |
| 10 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 11 | We could n't argue , for Thistle 's chance of taking anything from this game lasted all of 58 seconds . |
| 12 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 13 | It is well recognized because unless you have managed to work out how things actually happen you have no chance of achieving anything at all . |
| 14 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |