Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 2 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 3 | She said Copper had a 50:50 chance but that his leg may break at any time , not to mention all the problems that come with keeping a horse standing up and not moving for what could be months rather than weeks . |
| 4 | It struck Mungo as being like a time-bomb , planted even before memory , which might explode at any moment . |
| 5 | She looked as if she might explode at any moment . |
| 6 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 7 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 8 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 9 | Ursula seemed somewhat calmer once she was home , not least because she was within earshot of the telephone , which she continued to think might ring at any moment , bringing news of Samantha . |
| 10 | US and allied governments stressed that the exact moment was unimportant as it was not a " trigger point " , but that military action might begin at any time they chose thereafter , unless Iraq had complied with the UN resolutions . |
| 11 | Anything at all , and probably bad at that , might happen at any time … . |
| 12 | ‘ We might hear at any moment that it 's a bomb , ’ said Haig . |
| 13 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 14 | Sometimes I read schoolbooks , but there seems no point in learning anything when you might die at any minute . ’ |
| 15 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 16 | Firstly , he could not be sure whether other surviving members of the killer pack might arrive at any moment to join the attack on him . |
| 17 | He also must know that my ships from Denmark might arrive at any moment . |
| 18 | The room was unnaturally still about her , but the stillness might shatter at any second . |
| 19 | The world might end at any moment ; the illustrations of ninth-century Apocalypses are charged with innovation and nervous energy . |
| 20 | The exploitation of a range of alternative contractual and working time arrangements permits firms to secure precisely the number and types of such secondary workers that they might require at any time . |
| 21 | Lynn might reappear at any moment , Thomas was rambling in the woods somewhere near by , Floss and Tibbs were playing badminton just round the corner . |
| 22 | Already almost a year earlier Churchill had recognised that the enemy collapse in Europe might come at any time . |
| 23 | He developed the habit of carrying a book of poetry in his pocket , which he might open at any time for a swig of the sublime . |
| 24 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 25 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 26 | Mental illness , unlike most mental handicap which usually dates from birth or early years , may occur at any stage of life and may be chronic or acute , mild in form or severe . |
| 27 | Acute cocaine overdose may occur at any stage if a package bursts . |
| 28 | To summarise so far : a ) False sensations or sensory illusions may occur at any time in a pilot 's career and in fact commonly do occur in the normal course of events . |
| 29 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 30 | As it was not yet open , she sat on the step beside a broken box of rotting plums and watched the market traders going about their business : they all seemed to be in their usual mood of precarious good humour which could splinter at any moment into invective and menacing gesture . |