Example sentences of "[modal v] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 2 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 3 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 4 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 5 | Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident . |
| 6 | It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf . |
| 7 | No , cos it 's , you just watch somebody smack a ball as hard as they can with the one wood and see how far it goes . |
| 8 | But the only answer to that is for the West to build the most solid alliance it can with the only Germany it 's got . |
| 9 | But I hope that as soon as possible we can with the various approvals and that the money will be found because I would suggest , without the speed reducing measures , this scheme will be a complete waste of money . |
| 10 | you , you ca n't carry , oh where 's the think that goes on the back ? , oh there , there we are , you ca n't carry the milk pet back because we ca n't put your foot rest up high like we can with the front one , so there 's nothing to balance it on , and if you drop it , the big plastic bottle will burst open , wo n't it ? put this rain hood |