Example sentences of "anything that [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They will fly to strange people in strange places as long as there is food about , because they are much more interested in food than in anything that may be going on around them .
2 First , there is currently an unhealthy fear of being seen with anything that might be perceived as ‘ right on ’ ( the Eighties may be over , but many of its less attractive characteristics are still very much with us ) .
3 As autumn arrives , the birds migrate south , leaving the foxes to scavenge from the bird and reindeer carcasses and anything that might be washed up on the shore .
4 Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical .
5 And , most importantly , they have been unable to devise anything that might be termed a corporate central-government strategy towards inner-city areas .
6 Catastrophism became a joke and no geologist would dare postulate anything that might be termed a " catastrophe " for fear of being laughed at or ( in recent years ) linked with a lunatic fringe of Velikovsky and Californian fundamentalists .
7 He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there .
8 Just in time , he remembered he was talking to a thirty-year-old Captain from Int Corps who was deeply interested in anything that might be happening on his patch .
9 ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious .
10 In this situation anything that can be done to halt the destruction of the forests and to maintain the population of orang-utans in the wild must be attempted .
11 And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done .
12 Madeline , is there anything that can be done ?
13 For the optimists , anything that can be insisted upon will be so basic that it will almost inevitably be mastered incidentally , while the class is actually engaged in pursuits that are far more demanding , interesting , varied and relevant .
14 As a result Gorbachev is in danger of raising people 's expectations beyond anything that can be achieved .
15 As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches .
16 Anything that can be come to encourage companies to increase their efforts or to consider exporting as a viable means of increasing profitability has to be seen as a most worthwhile and objective exercise . ’
17 Well , anything that can be carried and produced without a lot of fuss is permissable — pipes , cigarettes , mirrors , handbags , fans , matches , etc .
18 Now it 's the oldest and hardest to find unless you are prepared to pay the ridiculous prices of independent fashion shops who 've searched the warehouses of middle America for anything that can be labelled ‘ old school ’ .
19 At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause .
20 ‘ If you think of anything that can be added you can give them further study . ’
21 Anything that can be learned will be noted ; action will be taken if needed .
22 But that , it appears , would be a far more monstrous solution than anything that can be dreamed up in a laboratory .
23 Hoarding was frowned on , but tinned beans and peas , sugar , flour , anything that could be stored , was soon piling up on top of wardrobes and in garden sheds .
24 Only the large , ground-living cassowaries from the Australasian rain forests possess anything that could be called avian armour , and even there it is confined solely to the head region .
25 I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war .
26 She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem .
27 However , the energies necessary to test a GUT or a TOE are unimaginably greater than anything that could be achieved on earth .
28 Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort .
29 There was n't anything that could be said .
30 In defence , Cimino argued that anything that could be imagined happening in Vietnam , probably did happen .
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