Example sentences of "anything [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 2 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 3 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 5 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 6 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ he said in a hard voice , ‘ quite frankly I ca n't imagine anything more disgusting than a woman who drops all semblance of pride to run after a man . ’ |
| 8 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 9 | I live overseas , in an area devoid of music shops stocking anything more advanced than a plectrum . |
| 10 | If there 's anything more ridiculous than a periwigged Pooh-Bah in his frills and furbelows I 've yet to see it . |
| 11 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 12 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 13 | There was no impetus to develop anything more sophisticated than a spoken announcement or a separate piece of paper packed into the box . |
| 14 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 15 | Given anything more robust than a stiffish blow , Aldeburgh becomes a test of nerve and character second to none . |
| 16 | Most glider pilots have never experienced anything more hazardous than a bad landing , so reading and talking about other people 's mistakes is almost the only way of becoming aware of the kind of situations which lead to broken gliders . |
| 17 | Sir , Apart from the illogicality ( with all due respect to Brough Girling , 8th January ) of Jennings , Tin Tin or Milly Molly Mandy , actually growing up , can one imagine anything more unlikely than Just William becoming anything as prattish as a Tory minister or an estate agent ? |
| 18 | The next day , finding it difficult to concentrate on anything as mundane as a punitive airstrike against Gaddafi , he called Evelyn Starnes , managing editor of Mutual Radio , in Arlington , Virginia . |
| 19 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 20 | She employed a series of nets in her art that seemed so insubstantial , Cleo could not imagine how anything as ephemeral as a spirit — which surely lacked substance in a material sense could be entrapped within them . |
| 21 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 22 | You do not even need anything as obvious as a party to start you on this slippery slope . |
| 23 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 24 | It 's hard to drop anything as big as a body from a bridge without being noticed — even at midnight . |
| 25 | But there never has been anything as sensible as a planned , rolling programme of electrification . |
| 26 | anything else other than a piano same one but you 're in clarinet pitch in B flat or you |