Example sentences of "as anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 2 | I was an articulate , busy girl , brave as anything on the platform , but timid about love . |
| 3 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |
| 4 | The audience is as weird as anything on the screen . |
| 5 | The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information . |
| 6 | IT 'S quite clear our Prime Minister , in his ‘ Mission For Maastricht ’ , sees himself as anything but the grey man he has been painted . |
| 7 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 8 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 9 | The four frigates , MEKO 3600 H2 Type , are as modern as anything in the German navy . |
| 10 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 11 | Predictably , a modern dynamic range benefits both the thrilling theatre of that invocation ( culminating in a triple forte cry of ‘ Printemps ’ as powerful as anything in The Rite ) , as well as the still calm of Persephone 's spoken lines rolling off the tongue with all the grace and ease exclusive to a native française , in this case Anne Fournet ( daughter of the conductor , Jean Fournet ) . |
| 12 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |