Example sentences of "be anything [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was too tall , too blonde to be anything but Hung Mao . |
| 2 | Alexei thought that marriage to Jehana was likely to be anything but settling , but he did not argue . |
| 3 | MY leisurely drive down the Antrim coast road last Sunday turned out to be anything but relaxing . |
| 4 | There had not seemed to be anything worth doing . |
| 5 | Fantasy goals can be anything from running in the Olympics to breaking a world record or winning the Boston Marathon . |
| 6 | You will also have the chance to provide informal activities which could be anything from putting on a record or cassette for some listening or dancing , to reading aloud , or getting someone fixed up with their portable stereo or a good romance to read . |
| 7 | This can be anything from cleaning an old pond to tree planting or landscaping a piece of waste ground . |
| 8 | The rural patriarchy is anything but unthreatening in the autobiographical novel by Aldo Busi ( but on autobiography , Busi warns : ‘ I contain my book , my book does not contain me ’ : Mondello 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Sweet Mignonette 's background is anything but blueblooded . |
| 10 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 11 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 12 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 13 | ‘ I was checking to see if there was anything worth watching on television . ’ |
| 14 | Two goats grazed between the tables , and looked with mild brown eyes to see if there was anything worth stealing from the tables . |
| 15 | Not for a moment must you imagine that this philanthropic gesture was anything but calculated on the part of the occupying military . |
| 16 | She half closed her eyes , but she knew that the picture she presented was anything but detached . |
| 17 | His reply was anything but reassuring . |
| 18 | As events were to prove in subsequent years though , it was anything but exhausted . |