Example sentences of "[be] anything [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 2 | Given such a state of affairs , the parallels and analogies which comrade Preobrazhensky has constructed could not be anything other than a childish game of terminology . |
| 3 | Through an amplifier , the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas . |
| 4 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 5 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 6 | For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl . |
| 7 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 8 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 9 | How could this right of election be anything other than a fiction if the breach of the term in all circumstances deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should receive ? |
| 10 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |
| 11 | You really need not fear that Dr. Briant will be anything other than an excellent father to this child . |
| 12 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 13 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 14 | To put it another way , bargaining provides the cement essential if the American polity is to be anything more than a conglomeration of unintegrated fragments . |
| 15 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 16 | These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall . |
| 17 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |
| 18 | Do not let anyone — pilots , the RAF or the CAA — fool themselves that CANP is anything other than a hastily improvised system put together after the collision of a Phantom and a Pawnee in 1974 , when it had to be shown that something was being done . |
| 19 | It is not even certain that rex Anglorum is anything other than a later tenth- or eleventh-century interpolation in those charters of the reign in which it appears . |
| 20 | It is slightly absurd for people to pretend that the ’ three wise men ’ report is anything other than a valuable contribution to the raising of standards in our schools . |
| 21 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 22 | Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance . |
| 23 | Some evidence for a layered structure was found , but whether this is anything more than a local feature is unknown . |
| 24 | I think that is the issue and on the basis of the distribution of settlements , er now there 's nothing there to suggest to me that er there 's anything other than the level playing field at the outset of perhaps of that exercise . |
| 25 | He has never been anything other than a raggamuffin , and that 's why his fans identify with him totally . |
| 26 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 27 | He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand . |
| 28 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |
| 29 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 30 | But is there any real evidence that such zodiacs are anything more than the product of an overactive imagination ? |