Example sentences of "anything [conj] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them . |
| 2 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 3 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 4 | He died in 1937 , 29 years after receiving his Nobel Prize and before witnessing anything that might have changed his opinion . |
| 5 | In other words , the subconscious was working in an expanding way , trying to think of anything that might have been overlooked . |
| 6 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 7 | Duncan got in the cab and searched for anything that might have been left . |
| 8 | And he simply could not think of anything that might have made him become a Muslim . |
| 9 | This requires bravery — to go against the ‘ safety first ’ approach — but , paradoxically , it is possible under LMS , and working with the governing body , to structure schools and their management in ways very different from anything that would have been possible before . |
| 10 | I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain . |
| 11 | Of course , anything that can have a name put to it can be measured more or less usefully . |
| 12 | It mattered to him that the people of the south were of ancient lineage , far beyond anything that could have been imagined by the Americans he had known in New York , back in the Tens and Twenties . |
| 13 | She had never belonged to anything and would have been a hopeless soldier . |