Example sentences of "anything the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 2 | His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience , disobedience , sin and doom . |
| 3 | The party leader , Hans-Jochen Vogel , a rather uninspiring figure , has nonetheless proved adept at managing this delicate evolution which , bolder than anything the Labour party ever contemplated , has avoided the sort of fratricidal bloodletting which ravaged its British counterpart . |
| 4 | If anything the prospect of increased attention embarrasses Charlton . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If anything the British have edged further away from Thatcher 's position as the decade has progressed ’ . |
| 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 | But already it is certain that the challenges ahead are at least as daunting as anything the Cold War produced . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Gulf war has not reduced the superciliousness of many Europeans about America one bit ; if anything the reverse . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 13 | This silence of the masses had a depressing effect , and probably reflects better than anything the attitudes of the population . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't light anything the now , ’ urged Jim . |
| 17 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 18 | A Durham miner 's daughter ‘ could shout down the passage and me grandma would soon know if there was anything the matter with us . ’ |
| 19 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 20 | If anything the effect is enhanced by a period of drying . |
| 21 | ‘ I considered saying something like , ‘ Is there anything the matter with you , mate ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Kennedy ’ is as good as anything The Prez have recorded so far in their brilliant career . ’ |
| 23 | The effect of one 's own peers openly commenting on one 's performance in a critical but essentially constructive manner can be far greater than anything the individual manager can achieve . |
| 24 | The objects ( or designs ) depicted on shields — the charges — can be anything the armiger wishes and the granting kings of arms deem fit . |
| 25 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 26 | ‘ Is anything the matter ? ’ |
| 27 | Thus anything the slightest bit controversial is left out as are , with a few exceptions , references to what private individuals and companies are doing in sending objects out of the Earth 's atmosphere in the interests either of research or for financial reward . |
| 28 | If anything the expensive fiasco at Three Mile Island ( this issue , p 79 ) could be interpreted as showing that even when a bunch of incompetents is let loose on a nuclear power station and does its best to help an accident along , the chances of harming the public are slim . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , they all work basically by trying to fit the input into a set of stored templates , and if some input does not fit anything the machine has been given , it simply replies ‘ I do not understand . ’ |
| 30 | Even if it be true that the Roman system of water supply survived in Perugia and a few other cities into the Middle Ages and has been believed to be better than anything the modern world has yet provided — in most places water was hard to come by and almost as expensive at times as wine . |