Example sentences of "[conj] anything the " in BNC.
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| 1 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
| 2 | At the moment they use their sitting room umm as just somewhere to put toys and washing and , just have n't decorated it or anything the dining room is still used like a living room , and what they really need is another room where they can . |
| 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 | This silence of the masses had a depressing effect , and probably reflects better than anything the attitudes of the population . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Don Reading , of Save The Children , has just returned from Somalia and said : ‘ This matter needed more than anything the chance to reach the people . |
| 8 | This is better than anything the comparable Beats International ever achieved , anyway . |
| 9 | Deploying forces in America in this way was more ambitious than anything the monarchy had done , and the Republic 's success in winning the obedience of the colonies and forcing the small royalist fleet to give up its privateering activities showed how much more effective England 's power had become . |
| 10 | And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " ) |
| 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 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 13 | When he was a young man , before he went to America , the law 's cloud billowed over everything , fomenting quarrels to her advantage until anything the litigants had to spare , peasants and rich men alike , was swallowed up . |
| 14 | If anything the prospect of increased attention embarrasses Charlton . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If anything the British have edged further away from Thatcher 's position as the decade has progressed ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Gulf war has not reduced the superciliousness of many Europeans about America one bit ; if anything the reverse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If anything the effect is enhanced by a period of drying . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If anything the proximity of a revived Poland after 1918 was to intensify German passions . |
| 25 | If anything the line-out will call for more rigorous refereeing than the ruck/maul . |
| 26 | If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck . |
| 27 | Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire . |
| 28 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 29 | Yet if anything the commune 's effect on productivity became even more deleterious : the greater the land-shortage , the greater the temptation to overwork strips of land held on brief tenure . |
| 30 | If anything the middle movement is too fast , while the finale is rather well paced . |