Example sentences of "anything [that] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your partner to remove spectacles , earrings , necklaces or anything that may impede the massage . |
| 2 | Next , go to see the local planning officer and the building control officer and ask them if they know of anything that might affect the house , and show them your list . |
| 3 | ‘ Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In fieldwork , you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley . |
| 5 | " 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 ? " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What about your involvement with anything that might help the world |
| 8 | ‘ We 're moving , ’ said Masklin , still peering out of the hole and almost glad of anything that would stop the argument . |
| 9 | It was a long time before she saw anything that would explain the curious horse call ; then she saw a notice-board standing up , gaunt and solitary , ahead of her , and she hurried towards it . |
| 10 | He did n't know what , just anything that would settle the unease he felt about the death . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I would welcome anything that would improve the legislation . |
| 13 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 14 | A true friend would not do anything that would enable the disease to continue but would instead take the difficult and risky path of totally confronting it , while still loving the sufferer , despite all the harshness that the disease will cause the sufferer to throw in return . |
| 15 | Anything that would grab the eye was jammed together to make the page frantically busy . |
| 16 | Anything that can prevent the kind of attack suffered by PC Harrison is worth using , at least on a trial basis . |
| 17 | Anything that can pierce the skin can transmit HIV by transferring blood from one person to another . |
| 18 | So never share anything that can pierce the skin such as : |
| 19 | ‘ Anything , anything that will give the impression that you can think . |
| 20 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 21 | One must avoid publicity or anything that could damage the reputation of the hotel . |
| 22 | In the case of steerable kites , skill of the operator is paramount ; but anything that could make the kite fly to a tighter turning radius , open its radius of action in the ‘ wind window ’ or launch and land more easily was a critical element . |
| 23 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 24 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 25 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |