Example sentences of "anything that could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But so far — and this may be what you 're driving at — we have n't found evidence of anything that could explain her murder . ’ |
| 4 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 5 | I did n't want to say anything that could stop Sir Henry from coming to live at the Hall . |
| 6 | Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ? |
| 7 | ‘ In this area angling seems to have been lumped together with bloodsports and some members of these councils vote automatically against anything that could benefit local fishing . |
| 8 | One must avoid publicity or anything that could damage the reputation of the hotel . |
| 9 | In the 1985 campaign Tritsis traversed Cephalonia , followed by convoys of adoring supporters in trucks , tractors and motor-cars , indeed anything that could move on wheels . |
| 10 | In the case of steerable kites , skill of the operator is paramount ; but anything that could make the kite fly to a tighter turning radius , open its radius of action in the ‘ wind window ’ or launch and land more easily was a critical element . |
| 11 | ‘ Like a red star , or anything that could identify it ? ’ |
| 12 | and anything that could identify anyone is taken out . |
| 13 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 7.7.2 not to do or omit anything that could cause any policy of insurance on or in relation to the Premises to become void or voidable wholly or in part nor ( unless the Tenant shall have previously notified the Landlord and have agreed to pay the increased premium ) anything by which additional insurance premiums may become payable This does not seem unreasonable . |
| 16 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 17 | Previous explorations , in 1987 and 1988 , failed to discover anything that could help explain why the plane crashed on its routine flight from Bologna to Palermo in June 1980 . |
| 18 | So I set to work learning Italian intensively , because I continued to feel , and increasingly felt , that anything that could help to keep Italy out of any war that might take place , ought to be done . |
| 19 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now , ’ his distraught mother said . |
| 21 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 22 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 23 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |