Example sentences of "as anything " 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 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 4 | Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches . |
| 5 | With so many pages , the decision to divide the paper into separate sections : home and foreign news , society and culture , economics and business news with special supplements , books and ideas on Friday , arts and listings on Thursday and a radio/television guide at the weekend , has been dictated by the problems of readability as much as anything else . |
| 6 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 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 | Asked whether yesterday 's attack had been a case of spontaneous combustion , he said : ‘ Look , it 's a reaction that I put forward there on behalf of , as much as anything else , the readers of our newspaper . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , within the party , there is widespread distrust of the approved list of candidates and it is regarded as anything but fair . |
| 10 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 11 | However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance . |
| 12 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 13 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 14 | She looked pretty as anything with her yellow hair and her cute little face . |
| 15 | I 'm as hungry as anything . |
| 16 | Tolkien pointed out that this was , as much as anything , an imaginative failure on Lewis 's part . |
| 17 | They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off . |
| 18 | Main picture Butterstream , Jim Reynold 's garden in County Meath , is as lovely as anything real could be . |
| 19 | There are now over forty Compacts in operation , which are succeeding — as much as anything by involving parents in the deal . |
| 20 | Just as stagebound as anything produced before 1939 is When We Are Married ( 1943 ) , in which three middle-aged couples are thrown into a frenzy upon discovering that the parson who married them all those years ago was n't qualified to do so . |
| 21 | But already it is certain that the challenges ahead are at least as daunting as anything the Cold War produced . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ David has very high skill levels , and his driving is as good as anything else in his game , ’ he explains . |
| 24 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 25 | Robinson 's rusticated gate piers are as grand as anything in York , from where he obviously employed his stonemason . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As much as anything , successful mergers depend upon the chief executive . |
| 28 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |