Example sentences of "[subord] anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know the river is frozen and the roads blocked , so anything from the water must be weeks old ! ’ |
| 2 | Despite the agonies of withdrawing from Empire and various undulations in economic performance , the decade of the 1950s was seen more than anything as " an age of affluence . " |
| 3 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 4 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 5 | It 's easy with these roots — easier than anything except lettuce . |
| 6 | This beer is sour , thin , musty , weak and stale , And worse than anything except the ale . |
| 7 | Gabriel would never understand nor Charley offer an explanation except to say , ‘ Better than sex , Gaby , better than anything except creation . |
| 8 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 9 | While much was achieved in improving safety standards , towards the decade 's end there was a series of accidents that perhaps shocked the public more than anything since Harrow & Wealdstone in the very early days of nationalisation . |
| 10 | Shakespeare brings out the worst in him , and this book is fuller of phoney , slapdash theories , illegitimate leaps and rushes where angels fear to tread , and discredited references , Sufic influences , Shamanic initiations , dreams , Black Elk , and Idries Shah on the Rosicrucians , than anything since Robert Graves . |
| 11 | The taxi wound its way uphill , passing near the area where the colonnade stood — where the musical water fountain was — and as her heart began to ache afresh Fabia wanted more than anything to be there in May , when the fountain played . |
| 12 | I mean it sounds more like a , a faint rather than anything with your |
| 13 | So to Pešek 's Taras Bulba — and more than anything on the disc , this rhapsodic triptych really does warm to his touch . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's Love ’ , for example , glides on harmonies huger and more beautiful than anything on Brian Wilson 's comeback album . |
| 15 | In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's Love ’ , for example , glides on harmonies huger and more beautiful than anything on Brian Wilson 's comeback album . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , big , butch rappers like LL Cool J and Public Enemy are held up as authentic voices of the Male Ghetto Experience ( usually by middle-class white semioticians ) , but if anything rap is even more the product of flatulent ego and opportunist marketing than anything by Bros or Kylie Minogue . |
| 18 | That Anglo-Saxon connection slowly dwindled , undermined more than anything by the rise of Biarritz and the widening belief in the seaside as the better source of good health . |
| 19 | Vegetables , seeds , and some nuts are all much better for you than anything like biscuits or cake . |
| 20 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 21 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 22 | The indictment of British nostalgia is more amiable than sharp , and the ideas are much less interesting than anything in Mackendrick 's films . |
| 23 | She went to her doctor for sleeping pills and a tonic , though he himself was a better tonic than anything in a bottle . |
| 24 | Dot knew it was more dangerous than anything in London , even during blackout and raids . |
| 25 | I now want one more than anything in the world . |
| 26 | He says ‘ I love you more than anything in the world ’ I believe him |
| 27 | Fact , in this instance , is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction . |
| 28 | ‘ More than anything in the world . ’ |
| 29 | In Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt describes the horrors of the Romanian concentration camps as ‘ more elaborate and more atrocious ’ than anything in Germany . |
| 30 | An embarrassing collection of clothes from the 1960s — hipsters , a floral tie and a pair of suede boots that Peter had once loved more than anything in the world . |