Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " |
| 2 | Hundreds of journalists were tried in the purges — ‘ l'épuration ’ — that followed the Liberation : more perhaps than any other profession , journalists paid the price of collaboration . |
| 3 | But Poulantzas argues that this interpretation is a mistake because the policy actually serves the interests of monopolies better than any available alternative , and is thus in line with their strategy . |
| 4 | For the first time , Hank did not feel a pang of envy at his friend 's being already at work ; he felt he was doing better than any young policeman could hope to do . |
| 5 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 6 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 7 | Lenin knew the Middle Volga better than any other leader , for he was born in Simbirsk , not far up river from Samara , had studied at Kazan ’ university , and been a barrister in Samara . |
| 8 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 9 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 10 | This hunger is better than any other fullness ; this poverty better than any other wealth . |
| 11 | Better than any other instrument available to teachers , then or now , tests would cut through the unpredictable circumstances of a child 's cultural background to the relatively stable aptitudes on which education builds . |
| 12 | As carbon dioxide retains infrared heat better than any other gas , and as the temperature began to fall , it follows that the early Earth must have had an atmosphere predominantly of CO 2 , and that atmospheric CO 2 must have diminished . |
| 13 | Some élite families , both Tamil and Sinhalese , spoke English better than any other tongue . |
| 14 | Rufus was one of those people who admire their own kind of looks better than any other sort and whose partners are chosen because they belong in the same type as themselves . |
| 15 | They were the first television generation , being introduced to the man who would use television better than any other politician . ’ |
| 16 | Quite simply , it does the job better than any other and is highly recommended . |
| 17 | Am I right in saying that Northern Ireland has weathered the recession better than any other part of the United Kingdom ? |
| 18 | The fact that Northern Ireland has weathered the recession better than any other region in the United Kingdom is due , to an extent , to the Government 's policies ; but it is due not least to the resourcefulness , intelligence and dedication of business people in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | We grew throughout the 1980s better than any other major European country except Spain : we received the highest growth in manufacturing productivity of any Group of Seven country and faster growth in business investment than any other G7 country except Japan . |
| 20 | As a Jew , he would never penetrate the very inner circles of the City-but , also as a Jew , he knew more European bankers and understood their ways better than any other London bank of his size . |
| 21 | The arch is a typical form of Roman building and , in the design of monumental arches or town gateways , has survived better than any other feature of Roman architecture . |
| 22 | must not proceed for a private customer with a packaged product of , or arranged by , any person with whom the firm has a connection unless the firm believes on reasonable grounds that the product will meet the customer 's requirements better than any other packaged product on the market . |
| 23 | And far better than any Congressional inquiry or suchlike ; I gather it 's a totally private proceeding . |
| 24 | Better than any old leeds player I can think of . |
| 25 | This has enabled the north to weather this recession far better than any previous recessions and in a way that bears the best comparison with the south . |
| 26 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 27 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
| 28 | Such MPs would , it is true , know that territory better than any incoming outsider , and being known there would presumably get off to a flying start in the pursuit of popularity . |
| 29 | The third new nuclear-powered design , the Alpha has a titanium hull and can dive deeper than any Western submarine . |
| 30 | There was , however , one man she regarded perhaps more highly than any other , and that was the retiring , talented and very muscular boxer Marcel Cerdan , who unfortunately already had a wife and three sons . |