Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarcely needed , of course , for one Maclean was naturally worth any four Campbells . |
| 2 | If this was true , any piece of DNA was just like any other piece , whereas every gene must be different from every other one . |
| 3 | I thought it was just like any other party . |
| 4 | She knew it was snobbish , that she was just like any other package holiday-maker . |
| 5 | But it was clearly to any one firm 's advantage if somewhere was elsewhere . |
| 6 | The students were given three lectures a day ( Simonds was strongly against any more lecturing than this ) and it was estimated that 50 to 60 horses were available for examination each day . |
| 7 | For various reasons , therefore , he moved to Jamaica and , although he returned to Barbados many times , it was never with any great enthusiasm for the place . |
| 8 | Lack of attention aside , his name still cropped up in many conversations but he was never in any real danger of being taken seriously within the circle of Manchester 's low art dwellers . |