Example sentences of "that anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That urgency , she added , was even greater in the party 's Scottish heartland , where Labour knows that anything but a convincing election challenge could allow the Scottish National Party rapidly to mobilise a bandwagon of anti-Conservative protest . |
| 2 | But the Japanese have decided that anything with the slightest chance of helping to make better microchips deserves a close look . |
| 3 | ‘ the excellent OUP series Resource Books for Teachers … over the years we have learned that anything with the Maley name attached is worthy of serious consideration . |
| 4 | Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) , French philosopher and mathematician , taught that space must be filled with something because empty space would fulfil no function , which is contrary to the perfection of Nature 's design which shows throughout the Universe that anything without purpose should not exist . |
| 5 | Water levels in the drains had been reduced to only about one foot and , in view of the conditions , it was surprising that anything at all was caught . |
| 6 | Boy never thought that anything on the television was ever about anything except his own life . |
| 7 | And , at 10 minutes per page for a 24-pin dot matrix printer it 's likely that anything over one copy is going to be treated in this way . |
| 8 | And therefore it must by definition be the case that anything over and above the one hundred and twenty two which I know Selby have not challenged on on on the basis of the assessment , er anything over and above that hundred and twenty two must siphon investment and economic activity from somewhere else because it 's not local , it 's not it 's not unemployed , it 's not local needs and it 's not migration . |
| 9 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |
| 10 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 11 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 12 | She had lost too much already in Parfois to believe easily that anything of hers could come unmarked out of it . |
| 13 | I do n't mean that anything about us , about yourself and me , has fallen off . |
| 14 | The former means that anything in the domain of belief is potentially relevant to what is being considered ; the latter means that the falsification or verification of propositions is done relative to their status in a scientific theory ( and , by extension , in a belief system ) . |
| 15 | They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search . |
| 16 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 17 | Many people living today , in the advanced industrial societies at least , can not imagine that anything in the past was better than it is in the present . |
| 18 | An Executive circular of 28 July pointed out that anything in the nature of a campaign for Unity could not be accepted . |
| 19 | Satisfaction was also expressed by Michael Jordan at Cork Gully and Nigel Hamilton at Ernst & Young , the joint liquidators of the two funds , who have so far recovered £60 million of the £190 million but knew from the beginning that anything like the Government pay-out for BCI was impossible . |
| 20 | " I mean , I had no idea that anything like that would happen . |
| 21 | It was not until the Trunk Roads Act , 1936 that anything like a national roads strategy was suggested , with a rational division of roads into four : Trunk , Class I , Class II and unclassified — and even then Britain declined to embark on motorway building , in sharp contrast to Germany 's autobahns and Italy 's autostrada . |
| 22 | He had never believed that anything like this could happen to him — this being , he supposed , love at first sight — but he acknowledged that it had . |
| 23 | None of them had ever supported Mr Hitler and most were shocked to hear that anything like that had been going on . |
| 24 | I doubt that anything like this would have happened in the Revie days , that was a time that Leeds were truly considered champions and it was Leeds that would be doing the ‘ poaching ’ of players as such . |