Example sentences of "[prep] anything [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mutual consent , it seemed , they spoke for the rest of the meal of anything but the one topic that was on both their minds . |
| 2 | You both lose awareness of self-consciousness , of anything but the current overwhelming physical and emotional sensations . |
| 3 | Without the use of anything but the simplest words , this sentence leaves its meaning entirely clear , and yet it still has an emotional quality that can not be forgotten . |
| 4 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section it shall be competent for a licensing board to entertain objections from the chief constable , lodged at any time before the hearing of an application , if the board is satisfied that there is sufficient reason why due notice and intimation of the objection could not be given , and in such a case the chief constable shall cause his objections to be intimated to the applicant before the hearing . |
| 6 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 7 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 8 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 9 | This teacher normally has no colleague in school with anything like the dominant , even entrepreneurial attributes of ‘ a good head of department ’ in a British secondary school ; in addition his or her headteacher is in principle primus inter pares , with an essentially administrative role : attending to the smooth running of the various councils and committees which since 1968 have clustered round the French school , negotiating with the Ministry usually through its inspectorate , to obtain an adequate supply of teachers , etc . |
| 10 | Yet , as recent work on political economy in the late eighteenth century has shown , it is difficult to establish Adam Smith , let alone Burke , as a ‘ free marketeer ’ in anything like the modern sense . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the job was beginning to carry its own very real status ; Benjamin James would be the first member of his branch of the family ever to have a ‘ career ’ in anything like the modern sense of the word . |
| 12 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 13 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 14 | There is no way anyone should see Michael Mann 's splendid panoramic epic The Last Of The Mohicans , based very loosely on James Fenimore Cooper 's classic novel , on anything but the best wide screen and in full Dolby sound . |
| 15 | And no Department will prepare a brief for its Minister on anything outside the departmental purview . |
| 16 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 17 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
| 18 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |
| 19 | Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay : |
| 20 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 21 | The second general conception of law I introduced in the last chapter , legal pragmatism , holds that people are never entitled to anything but the judicial decision that is , all things considered , best for the community as a whole , without regard to any past political decision . |
| 22 | However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’ |
| 23 | I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation . |
| 24 | George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit . |
| 25 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 26 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 27 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 28 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 29 | Quality control is not ‘ externalized ’ , nor is maintenance , to anything like the same degree as in more traditional modernist organizations . |
| 30 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |