Example sentences of "[was/were] anything [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |
| 2 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
| 3 | It had never been admitted that Michael Holly , small-time engineer , was anything other than a falsely-accused business representative on lawful business in the Soviet capital . |
| 4 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 5 | There is little evidence to support the view that Nizan was anything other than a faithful , orthodox party member ; a Stalinist in short . |
| 6 | Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment . |
| 7 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 8 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 9 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | If this was anything more than a straightforward clerical error — the only parallel case being Robert Harold of Hungerford , who was stated to own a copyhold worth 8s. — it poses the question , was customary land ever assessed , whether by accident or design ? |
| 11 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |
| 12 | Here , too , the Hammonds were concerned to dismiss suggestions that Luddism was anything more than a despairing form of industrial protest without any real degree of political revolutionary intent . |
| 13 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 14 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |
| 15 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 16 | Looking at his froggy face , half-submerged in the murky water , it was hard to believe that he really was anything more than an ordinary frog , and Mildred could see why no one had recognized her when she was in the same plight . |
| 17 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |