Example sentences of "[v-ing] anything that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he attacked the Army , the Secretary , Robert Stevens , offered his services to Tail Gunner Joe ‘ to assist you in correcting anything that may be wrong ’ and ended up offering to resign . |
| 2 | While some Labour politicians have been supportive , others have displayed a small-minded determination to avoid saying anything that might offend Muslim voters , as if that was the highest issue at stake . |
| 3 | With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work . |
| 4 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 5 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 6 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 7 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 8 | ‘ Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price , ’ he said . |
| 9 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 10 | Without doing anything that could be described as eccentric , he left an impression of strangeness . |
| 11 | Transport cost so much that it was virtually impossible to make a profit by importing anything that could be produced locally ; although salt cod was brought across the Atlantic , in general nothing but luxury goods like gold , silver , furs , and spices would yield a reasonable return after paying for a costly ocean voyage . |
| 12 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 13 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 14 | Thus the long and laborious process of collecting anything that might conceivably be datable has paid dividends , placing several Bronze Age mines firmly on the map . |
| 15 | If Mrs Baggley wanted to talk this one out Theodora would listen but she had no intention of inviting anything that might be just gossip . |
| 16 | He died in 1937 , 29 years after receiving his Nobel Prize and before witnessing anything that might have changed his opinion . |
| 17 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 18 | But more important still , in making such statements one is not asserting anything that could conceivably be interpreted in terms of non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties of the objects concerned . |
| 19 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |