Example sentences of "[verb] anything that [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are indeed a couple able to avoid anything that could be construed as A Masculine Ending ( BBC1 : 7.45–9.20 pm ) . |
| 2 | And , most importantly , they have been unable to devise anything that might be termed a corporate central-government strategy towards inner-city areas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Without doing anything that could be described as eccentric , he left an impression of strangeness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus , Spenser proposes that Irish savagery excels anything that could be associated with England 's most apparent enemy , Spain . |
| 8 | Catastrophism became a joke and no geologist would dare postulate anything that might be termed a " catastrophe " for fear of being laughed at or ( in recent years ) linked with a lunatic fringe of Velikovsky and Californian fundamentalists . |
| 9 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |
| 10 | Only the large , ground-living cassowaries from the Australasian rain forests possess anything that could be called avian armour , and even there it is confined solely to the head region . |