Example sentences of "[conj] anything the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment they use their sitting room umm as just somewhere to put toys and washing and , just have n't decorated it or anything the dining room is still used like a living room , and what they really need is another room where they can . |
| 2 | Don Reading , of Save The Children , has just returned from Somalia and said : ‘ This matter needed more than anything the chance to reach the people . |
| 3 | And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " ) |
| 4 | Deploying forces in America in this way was more ambitious than anything the monarchy had done , and the Republic 's success in winning the obedience of the colonies and forcing the small royalist fleet to give up its privateering activities showed how much more effective England 's power had become . |
| 5 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 6 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 7 | If anything the Land Campaign and the Liberal plan to abolish plural voting before a possible 1915 general election offered the prospect of another Conservative defeat , and the Conservatives themselves were almost certain this would be the case . |
| 8 | And if you do buy a car privately and it turns out to have problems with it , there is very little , if anything the Trading Standards Department could do to help you . |
| 9 | The unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR has shown that if anything the notion of total control exercised by an all-knowing state has been badly overplayed by Cold Warriors . |
| 10 | If anything the line-out will call for more rigorous refereeing than the ruck/maul . |
| 11 | But if anything the cloud hanging over them after the Riddifords left made Dennis , Millie and their expanded family — two more sons Michael and Peter were born after their arrival in Melbourne — even more determined to make it . |
| 12 | Yet if anything the commune 's effect on productivity became even more deleterious : the greater the land-shortage , the greater the temptation to overwork strips of land held on brief tenure . |
| 13 | The Gulf war has not reduced the superciliousness of many Europeans about America one bit ; if anything the reverse . |
| 14 | If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck . |
| 15 | If anything the proximity of a revived Poland after 1918 was to intensify German passions . |
| 16 | If anything the prospect of increased attention embarrasses Charlton . |
| 17 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 18 | If anything the effect is enhanced by a period of drying . |
| 19 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 20 | His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience , disobedience , sin and doom . |
| 21 | Aura , a CBS recording made in Scandinavia four years ago ( Davis went to WEA for his last two albums , after 30 years with Columbia ) , is as good a demonstration of that as anything the trumpeter has recorded since his most famous collaborations with Gil Evans . |