(1) He was as nice as anything to me.

(2) I felt as pleased as anything.

(3) I saw it as clearly as anything.

(4) I couldn't interpret it as anything but racialism.

(5) Ecumenically it is as important as anything.

(6) It's as smooth as anything.

(7) However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.

(8) During the Middle Ages society suffered, as much as anything else, from an acute and prolonged crisis of confidence.

(9) There is no mistaking Hall's books as anything other than romantic fiction.

(10) It is as baffling a production enigma as anything in Maclean's own life.

(11) That, as much as anything, may explain why Kirby has five rushing touchdowns.

(12) Robinson's rusticated gate piers are as grand as anything in York, from where he obviously employed his stonemason.

(13) His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience, disobedience, sin and doom.

(14) I never saw my song-writing as anything more than a hobby until recently.

(15) I don't see this affair as anything more than an interesting historical footnote.

(16) But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances, the argument still works.

(17) It seemed, as much as anything, to be a matter of principle.

(18) There were no theatres, no cinemas, no coffee bars. It was dead as anything.

(19) His new play, Arcadia, is as intricate, elaborate and allusive as anything he has yet written.

(20) No Hollywood director would have the imagination to cast him as anything but a thug.

(21) Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend.

(22) Though immensely talented and charismatic, his success may be as much an accident of history as anything.

(23) The irony of his failure to act as a hero is as severe as anything in Conrad.

(24) The mobility allowance amounted initially to ￡10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.

(25) It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything.

(26) Paul, who was in the back, piped up, plain as anything, play them.

(27) Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.

(28) The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information.

(29) Unfortunately, their record appears to have been wrapped in thick cloth while being records; it is muffled as anything.

(30) Only the faded sashes they wore, and the weapons they carried, marked them as anything but ordinary folk fleeing the marauders.

(31) The audience is as weird as anything on the screen.

(32) The trouble was kept to a minimum as much because of the novelty of the situation as anything else.

(33) The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public.

(34) She looked pretty as anything with her yellow hair and her cute little face.

(35) I can remember that as plain as anything, coming over there.

(36) It's easy as anything.

(37) This smallish grid of brick byways features pale Easteregg-colored houses old as anything in town.

(38) And that it was my parents' ambivalence, as much as anything, that had driven us all nuts.

(39) It was as poor here as anything he had experienced in the Borinage.

(40) It is drawbacks like these that have kept blimps from catching on as anything but lovable advertising novelties.

(41) Saving Sierra Leone is, as much as anything else, about redressing the awful imbalance in life chances the war created.

(42) Ellison has never embraced the computer as anything but a nuisance.

(43) Stalking stags is turned into a sport as an economic necessity as much as anything else.

(44) I would as lief go there as anything .

(45) It'll do as well as anything else!

(46) " Not as anything in particular,[]'she faltered.

(47) He pretends to be as modest as anything.

(48) Report as soon as anything happens.

(49) These creatures travel in sea as fast as anything.

(50) He used to be as smart as anything.

(51) She pulls a long face as soon as anything happens to displease her.

(52) But the non-family managers blame Mr. Toyoda's management style -- both external and internal -- as much as anything for letting the defects turn from a fixable problem into a full crisis.

(53) What you do is as important as anything government does.

(54) The newspaper might as well talk loud about that as anything else.

(55) What must be addressed as much as anything is our psychological preparations.

(56) She avoids big-ticket clothing items in case they may be counterfeit — as well as anything edible.

(57) The mood was as bleak as anything I've experienced as an investor.

(58) Rave music is defined as anything with a repetitive beat.

(59) If so, the enjoyment of science is as important as anything else.

(60) Such a historic step would do as much to prevent another terrorist strike on US soil as anything else Mr. Bush has done overseas in the nearly six years since the Sept. 11 attacks.

(61) The product is as good as anything I've seen before.

(62) Do not picture yourself as anything, and you will drift like an abandoned ship at sea.

(63) In my experience, musicians in China don't regard perfect pitch as anything remarkable because it's very common.

(64) She would be as pleased as anything if you wrote to her.

(65) She opened the door and jumped out, quick as anything.