Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
| 2 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 3 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 4 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 5 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 6 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
| 7 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 8 | I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late . |
| 9 | The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world . |
| 10 | More than anything else in the world she wanted him to touch her again , but already some of the unadulterated pleasure was slipping away and the doubts were beginning to reassert themselves . |
| 11 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 12 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 13 | I love him more than anyone else in the world , more than myself ! ’ |
| 14 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |
| 15 | The issues before us now are as important , at least as important as anything else in the Bill . |
| 16 | ‘ Bryan did no better or no worse than anyone else in the Turkey game , but that 's not the standard by which he judges himself . |
| 17 | If I live to be 110 , I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out-of-doors . |
| 18 | And they are treated exactly the same as anybody else on the Tour . |
| 19 | It 's got one vote , the same as anybody else on the floor . |
| 20 | Much more modern than anything else in the street , they were well designed and built in glossy red brick . |
| 21 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 22 | Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past . |
| 23 | Paralysis held Theda blank of mind and body , as still and silent as everyone else in the breakfast parlour . |