Example sentences of "[subord] anything [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market . |
2 | In fact , I 'm using the Clapton Strat more than anything else at the moment in the studio . |
3 | ‘ My success as a businessman has been based on keeping tight control of financial matters and that is what Newcastle United need more than anything else at the moment . |
4 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
5 | I am just a little girl , I have n't even started my periods yet and little girls can tantrum louder and then can sulk deeper than anything else in the universe . |
6 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
7 | Much more modern than anything else in the street , they were well designed and built in glossy red brick . |
8 | This parallel economy generates more energy than anything else in the favela . |
9 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
10 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
11 | I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late . |
12 | You 'd rather be doing your job than anything else in the world . |
13 | The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world . |
14 | ‘ After my husband , ’ she once said , ‘ I love jewellery more than anything else in the world . ’ |
15 | But more than that , more than anything else in the world , she wanted to be with Nathan . |
16 | I hate hurting you , I hate it more than anything else in the world , but I did hurt you , and I 'd sooner die than do it again . ’ |
17 | More than anything else in the world she wanted him to touch her again , but already some of the unadulterated pleasure was slipping away and the doubts were beginning to reassert themselves . |
18 | ‘ I love my wife more than anything else in the world . |
19 | He had promised her that if anything out of the ordinary happened , any unnecessary flicker on a dial , he would wake her . |
20 | Agreement on GATT is as important to this country as anything else at the moment , and the Community will have to make amendments to its policy to play its part in reaching that agreement . |
21 | The issues before us now are as important , at least as important as anything else in the Bill . |