surpass

Object

• greatness: Nothing compares to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus our Lord.
• expectation: The figure surpassed market expectations for a 0.4 percent increase.
• riches: Heaven is where God will show us kindness out of the surpassing riches of His grace forever.
• comprehension: And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
• likes: By 1973 Slade had surpassed the likes of T-Rex, David Bowie.
• anything: The ease with which is can now be removed from the office surpasses anything in history.

Subject

• none: Quite a number of crack regiments were recruited there, regiments whose battle record is surpassed by none, and equaled by few.
• quality: But even their efforts were surpassed by the quality of programs that made it through to final nominations.

Adjective complement

most: But it is a proven fact that people with this disorder can surpass most of the problems with work on their part.

Modifying Another Word

• far: A day to God's glory far surpasses a lifetime to selfish pleasures.
• even: EVEN surpasses Final fantasy VII, i dare say.
• easily: During our beta period, we easily surpassed all our customer acquisition goals.
• greatly: Our guests commented that while they expected the occasion to be very good it had greatly surpassed their expectations.
• consistently: I just wanted to say thanks, my expectations are consistently surpassed by your friendly staff and fast delivery.
• indeed: We are on target to achieve, and indeed surpass, the targets in our five-year commercialisation strategy.

Used with why or when

• what: In the 2006 the screen aims to surpass what they achieved during the previous year.
• when: Objective 5 was met when TUE hosted Async'97 and was surpassed when UPC hosted Async'99 this year.

Preposition: in

annals: Erasmus was now in the zenith of his fame, a fame which has never been surpassed in the annals of men of letters.

Preposition: by

• none: Quite a number of crack regiments were recruited there, regiments whose battle record is surpassed by none, and equaled by few.
• quality: But even their efforts were surpassed by the quality of programs that made it through to final nominations.