Example sentences of "[adv] and [modal v] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M.P.s may lack the necessary expertise to scrutinise it effectively and may lack the necessary independent information . |
| 2 | Neither are Norway spruce ( P. abies ) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ) which are also widely used in forestry programmes because they grow relatively quickly and can tolerate the poor soils that are characteristic of British uplands . |
| 3 | You will then be supporting the work of the national charity directly and will receive the quarterly journal ‘ New Generation ’ as well as automatic membership of your local branch . |
| 4 | ( N.B. The dealer would himself ring the client fifteen minutes later and would spin the following yarn : " I 've got just 5,000 shares left on my books . |
| 5 | Rabbits do n't relish the prospect of sharing a home with rats but they are unable to move them out and must make the best of it . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that er those thinking members that are left within the Tory group , if there are any thinking members left , will realise the benefits of what we 're about and will support the future economic strategy that this Council needs to adopt . |
| 7 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 8 | Such a reform would be welcome indeed and would remove the existing bias towards ‘ the great and the good ’ but would it enable the broadcasting authorities to be more assertive in their dealings with governments ? |
| 9 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |