Example sentences of "[be] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the obvious price dodge of skimping on the thickness of silver , measured by cutlers in microns — which can be anything from one to 50 . |
| 2 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 3 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It 's a question of definitions of purpose of establishment in a tough fashion — it can not be anything else — of priorities . |
| 5 | But , in the broader terms of next Saturday 's tour opener at the Arms Park , it surely failed to convince a single soul that Cardiff will be anything other than cannon-fodder for the All Blacks . |
| 6 | Since winning the super-heavyweight gold at last year 's Olympics , the London-born but Canadian-raised fighter has shown himself to be anything but another pugilistic stereotype . |
| 7 | In the latest Jane 's Defence Weekly , he says this discovery ‘ ca n't be anything but bad news to forces planning to defend against these tanks with current anti-tank weapons ’ . |
| 8 | Their involvement , if it materialises , may be anything from straightforward advertising on the equipment , on Mir , and even on the astronaut , to support for scientific experiments . |
| 9 | THERE was no particular reason to have expected the creator of Asterix , the cuddly but cute Gallic mini-hero , or Obelix , the hefty menhir delivery-man , to be anything like his cartoon characters . |
| 10 | You may need to make an advance payment ( the difference between the total cost of the three year hire for the vehicle selected and the amount of finance available from mobility supplement ) , but for smaller cars there may not be anything to pay . |
| 11 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 12 | It was only a cast-iron lump with pushrod valvegear , of course , and with no pretensions to be anything more exotic ; even in 1964 we observed that ‘ although this comparatively unsophisticated six-cylinder engine must now be very near the end of its development , it seems to have gained in flexibility and is virtually free from any temperament . ’ |
| 13 | It ca n't be anything . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it ca n't be anything — ’ and again , passionately , ‘ it ca n't be ! |
| 15 | The common earthworm can be anything from four inches to a foot long , and many people claim to have seen worms 20 inches long , but that may be stretching a point . |
| 16 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 17 | There did n't seem to be anything to do but to close the door , which I did . |
| 18 | If they stopped visiting the hospital every day , there would n't be anything left in life except a gaping crater of nothingness and broken bricks . |
| 19 | She wondered if this might be anything like the bananas that Mrs Parvis said were so exceptional . |
| 20 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 21 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 22 | These stems can be anything from 3 to 4ft tall and support , during summer , dense heads of crimson-purple flowers . |
| 23 | It could be anything between , say , three months and two years . ’ |
| 24 | They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years . |
| 25 | The all-American claim that You Can Be Anything You Want To Be is an obvious fraud , but while Jimmy Connors is on court , you can believe it . |
| 26 | ‘ Local authorities will find ways of closing them despite their popularity , and they will have the power to do it because there will not be anything to protect the schools . |
| 27 | These women , who may be anything from 40 to 70 , take care of their forme by eating to various permutations : some do n't eat after 5 pm , others never mix protein and carbohydrate . |
| 28 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 29 | After only five days in the complex and , to almost all of us , unfamiliar environment of Lewis and Harris , our views can not be anything more than initial impressions . |
| 30 | But whether the engine in question is a model Newcomen in Glasgow University , or a warp-drive in geostationary orbit over Barnard 's Star Six , the hand on the spanner could hardly be anything but home-grown and very likely , Clyde-built . |