Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of a national broadcaster and the world 's leading sports management agency must give Britain the best chance of success in a difficult contest . ’ |
| 2 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 3 | Grammar school rock may give Morrissey the perfect adoring audience for his ramblings but it does not help the wider case of rock or rock 's present stagnance . |
| 4 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 5 | Erm so that 'll include September the fourth which is my last Sunday one , September the fourth . |
| 6 | What 's more , we 'll give families the economic and technical support they need to irrigate land , grow crops , raise livestock and so provide a better future for their children . |
| 7 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 8 | New research could make coal the cheapest means of generating electricity — but the Government 's being accused of wasting the work . |
| 9 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 10 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 11 | I could give people the last part , be careful in the second one . |
| 12 | The decision to enter could be announced any time after completed negotiations and entry could take effect the next weekend , when markets are closed . |
| 13 | A decisive victory in a battle brought patriotic celebration , while at other times when things were going less well the failure to seek a peace could swing sentiment the other way . |
| 14 | But who would deliver King the full count ? |
| 15 | In November it was reported that the European Communities had agreed to proposals for Namibia to join the Lomé Convention , under which the country would secure an annual beef quota , at an estimated price 40 per cent higher than the world market , which would make Namibia the second largest beef exporter among the African , Caribbean and Pacific countries ( after Botswana ) . |
| 16 | That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it . |
| 17 | He envied it , but he feared for it , too , for when the Rabbi departed to Eretz who would show Jacob the same affection ? |
| 18 | They argue that this effluent fee would give motorists the proper incentive to ensure that exhaust emission control devices were efficiently maintained . |
| 19 | ‘ But who would dare approach the aloof Lady Eleanor ? |
| 20 | Brian had chosen Bath as a place to which he would take Celia the following weekend , partly because it was not too far away and partly because he remembered how happy they had been there before . |
| 21 | Later in the day I would tell Jack the exact distance that the first bunker was from the tee . |
| 22 | I shall tell Alan the bad news . |
| 23 | To hold otherwise would leave municipalities the helpless victims of all those who choose to publish untrue imputations which injure their reputations . |
| 24 | Well , at least , he thought , with a glimmer of the old wry humour , at least I shall witness things the legitimate Wolfprinces did not . |
| 25 | The agreement will make Tuxedo the only on-line transaction processing technology on mainframe AIX . |
| 26 | Construction of a sixth train , due to be completed in 1993 , will make Bontang the largest operating LNG facility in the world . |
| 27 | Families with sleep-destroying babies will enjoy Beeswax The Bad 's Noisy Night by Andrew and Paula Martyr ( Hamish Hamilton , £7.99 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ What will give companies the competitive edge is the quality of the way their people treat customers and that is linked to the way they are treated by managers . |
| 29 | Dumping at sea : New powers governing dumping at sea will give Britain the widest controls in Europe . |
| 30 | The facts that will now be provided will give parents the missing information which will allow them to judge a school overall . |