Example sentences of "that [pron] [is] anything " in BNC.

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1 The most primitive physicalist response to this argument is to deny the claim that there is anything about the mind that BS does not know .
2 To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know .
3 I am not seeking to suggest that there is anything sinister about such a process .
4 We are not saying that there is anything wrong with timber-frame homes if they are constructed properly .
5 Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death .
6 As I 've mentioned above , contracted polyps do not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with a leather coral , but well-expanded specimens are definitely healthy .
7 Who said ‘ it 's completely absurd to suggest that there is anything unprofessional in my friendship with the Duchess .
8 The Isley Brothers ' Behind The Painted Smile — not that there is anything behind mine .
9 ‘ It 's completely absurd to suggest that there is anything unprofessional in my friendship with the Duchess .
10 It refuses to tell ; it even denies , in its extreme theorising moods , that there is anything certain to be told .
11 Althusser denies that there is anything specific to explain about liberal democracy except its illusory existence .
12 Perhaps everything — not that there is anything — should just have been allowed to come out into the open at that point .
13 However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air .
14 Not that there is anything to lose by keeping the door open , but really I believed it is every man for himself .
15 We should n't be surprised , and we should n't think that there is anything wrong with us for having tears in our lives .
16 I shall not tell my clerks that there is anything out of the ordinary about this audit , and they will accept you quite naturally as the special representative of the bank .
17 I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools .
18 Do n't think that there is anything amateurish in using a putter , particularly if the lie is bare or the ball is sitting awkwardly .
19 Er , well thank you for your offer of help it is , er i i i i it 's er er clearly a very difficult issue , there are erm , there are important issues of principle er , in , er conflicting directions it is not an easy one and erm er er er I do n't er , really know that there is anything er that , er any shareholder of Pearsons is able to do about it .
20 Pupils can not think about or develop sensitivity and discernment concerning what they are in deepest ignorance about , even as not to appreciate that there is anything of which they are ignorant is an even greater indication of the degree of deprivation .
21 Not , you will understand , that there is anything unseemly here except perhaps the occasional rather coy toplessness .
22 ‘ Thank you for trying , ’ I said slowly , ‘ but I do n't really see that there 's anything you can do to help .
23 Not that there 's anything wrong with indie bands — we 've got several very good acts locally — but the traditional pop group is definitely coming back in a big way .
24 If we find that there 's anything else we need to know , someone will contact you . ’
25 Are you sure that there 's anything left out there beyond the Darkfall ?
26 Not that there 's anything new to say now .
27 ‘ Apparently , sir , and not best pleased , not that there 's anything he can do about it .
28 At this stage I take the view it is very unlikely that there 's anything in this expert evidence that will be of the slightest assistance to me and I 'm not going rule it out .
29 And another thing , she did n't have to do well her mother 's erm her mother-in-law seems a bit erm bad tempered with her , like , she 's is that she did n't have to tell John , her ex-husband that there 's anything the matter like and and , and that 's when she she , all she wants to do is get him against me .
30 Yes , I do n't see but it does n't seem to me that there 's anything intrinsically better about Beethoven than Madonna .
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