Example sentences of "as anything [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not , however , deal with a phenomenon that is doing as much as anything to undermine the profitability of televised baseball : the rise of two cable superstations , Ted Turner 's WTBS and the Tribune Group 's WGN . |
| 2 | I subsequently bumped into him ( and most of the others ) in the otiose round of committees during the 1960s which did as much as anything to quench the white heat of the revolution . |
| 3 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
| 4 | This seemed to disturb Eliot , as anything afflicting the eye did — for he had a dread of blindness — and he murmured his concern that the woman had shone the light ‘ in the child 's eye ’ . |
| 5 | In similar fashion the expansion of European sovereignty overseas , which as much as anything marked the onset of the modern age , was attended by substantial accessions of gold . |
| 6 | Beyond the immediate challenge of German U-Boat warfare , France 's resolute defence of Verdun probably did as much as anything to pave the way , emotionally , to the United States ' entry into the war in April 1917 . |