Example sentences of "[to-vb] anything that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 3 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 4 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 5 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 6 | The cost for a single user of a committee feed is a real deterrent , particularly for individual ITV regional companies , and the Committee was anxious to avoid anything that might inhibit regional coverage . |
| 7 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 8 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |
| 9 | " I do n't want you to do anything that might attract the least sort of suspicion to yourself , but could you , in the normal course of your work , make out a list of the voyages of your ships over the past year — just name of ship and masters , ports of call , and dates ? " |
| 10 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 11 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 12 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 15 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 16 | In the past the ruling council of Lloyd 's has refused to contemplate anything that would appear to mutualise names ' losses . |
| 17 | You will appreciate that with political affairs in their present delicate state we can not afford to overlook anything that might touch upon questions of security . ’ |
| 18 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |
| 19 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 20 | They did n't seem prepared to say anything that might appear embarrassing or gauche later on . |
| 21 | I did n't want to say anything that could stop Sir Henry from coming to live at the Hall . |
| 22 | Mary said : ‘ My ultimate concern is not to say anything that will damage Stewart 's career . |
| 23 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |