Example sentences of "[subord] anything [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 2 | Anyway I suppose before we decide we really need to know how much the National Party are going to charge us if anything for the actual posters and what the posters look like . |
| 3 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 4 | There could hardly be a more opportune time for attempting to salvage something for those young people who are currently gaining little if anything from the educational system . |
| 5 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 6 | These are especially important where there is ‘ the potential for discord when anything beyond the conventional or ordinary begins to surface . |
| 7 | IT 'S quite clear our Prime Minister , in his ‘ Mission For Maastricht ’ , sees himself as anything but the grey man he has been painted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The four frigates , MEKO 3600 H2 Type , are as modern as anything in the German navy . |
| 10 | 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 . |