Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pentos , he said on 31st December , was unlikely to find bookselling any easier than it was finding the difficult Athena and office furniture markets . |
| 2 | Benny noted her movement and thought to intervene , but by then it was too late , and she did n't want to risk causing any noticeable disturbance . |
| 3 | Try to avoid using any one component in a design that is much darker than all the others . |
| 4 | Then again , there are other genres which try to avoid using any technical terms at all , in the belief that literary studies should be accessible to all without special training in a professional vocabulary . |
| 5 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm frightened of horses — but I was aware of all the rumours about me being ‘ difficult ’ to work with , so I got on the horse to avoid causing any problems . |
| 7 | It is important when collecting soil to avoid getting any old leaves or weeds mixed in with it , as these will only decompose and foul the water . |
| 8 | Groups such as APRA , which were aiming to create a broad alliance across class boundaries , were obliged to resort to very general slogans , typified by their rallying cry of ‘ Against Yankee imperialism , for the unity of the peoples of Latin America , for the realisation of social justice ’ , in order to avoid alienating any of their potential supporters . |
| 9 | Typically , the reasoning component of the system will be more expensive and less reliable than the linguistic components , and constraints between anaphors can sometimes allow the system to avoid doing any non-linguistic reasoning at all . |
| 10 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 11 | However , care should be taken not to use a professional counsellor as a " fixer " who enables one to avoid doing any real work of one 's own . |
| 12 | ‘ We would hope to avoid cutting any single major service . |
| 13 | But he said : ‘ I have been careful to avoid modelling any of the characters on individual members of our Royal family . |
| 14 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 15 | He has given the players a week off training to avoid incurring any injuries . |
| 16 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 17 | To avoid missing any action , I 've moved inside , from the wing to the rear-view mirror . |
| 18 | I do n't want her to go getting any wrong ideas about what 's become of me . ’ |
| 19 | The 308D is not the fastest thing on the highway , but Harris has no wish for his drivers to go breaking any speed records . |
| 20 | I mean what do they do to it to justify charging any more ? . |
| 21 | It shifts the onus of proof in convictions from the police , who currently have to prove intent , to the public , who would have to justify carrying any sharpened blade . |
| 22 | In practice this sequence would need to be expanded to include performing any specified address modification , and checking for pending interrupts before accessing the next instruction . |
| 23 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 24 | Dave did not like the past and she was not going to risk losing any part of the present . |
| 25 | They 're all sitting round this table , like they 're going to start eating any moment . |
| 26 | This is relatively easy to ensure using any of the standard test pieces recommended for isotropic materials , but may still present difficulties when anisotropic and/or composite specimens are used . |
| 27 | It has reiterated Israel 's long-maintained refusal to consider returning any of the Golan Heights to Syria , adding , for good measure , that the Syrian regime is as bad as the Iraqi one . |
| 28 | The survivor finds it impossible to start expressing any feelings at all because they are so confusing , challenging and unsafe . |
| 29 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 30 | Before going into a residential or nursing home it is sensible to consider giving any valuables not in everyday use to a close relative or friend for safekeeping . |