Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] any [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Try to avoid using any one component in a design that is much darker than all the others . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ We would hope to avoid cutting any single major service . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I do n't want her to go getting any wrong ideas about what 's become of me . ’ |
| 11 | I mean what do they do to it to justify charging any more ? . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Members are asked to consider donating any suitable material they have to the Society . |
| 16 | Owing to the limited dispersal area and the possibility of enemy air attack in the Clyde area , the decision was made not to risk ferrying any more to Renfrew until the 23 Spitfires already on the ground had been transferred to the docks in Glasgow . |
| 17 | But if she loses a planning appeal in December she could be forced to give up her dogs — or at least to stop breeding any more . |
| 18 | Measurements would have been taken from the guest cast enabling the Costume Supervisor either to begin tailoring any special costumes ( a Sensorite uniform for instance ) , or to arrange hiring of costumes from BBC stock or from Theatrical Costumiers such as Bermans & Nathans — who had supplied William Hartnell 's Edwardian outfit as the Doctor . |