Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [v-ing] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He has given the players a week off training to avoid incurring any injuries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 . |