Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | But who would deliver King the full count ? |
8 | They argue that this effluent fee would give motorists the proper incentive to ensure that exhaust emission control devices were efficiently maintained . |
9 | ‘ But who would dare approach the aloof Lady Eleanor ? |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Later in the day I would tell Jack the exact distance that the first bunker was from the tee . |
12 | I shall tell Alan the bad news . |
13 | To hold otherwise would leave municipalities the helpless victims of all those who choose to publish untrue imputations which injure their reputations . |
14 | Well , at least , he thought , with a glimmer of the old wry humour , at least I shall witness things the legitimate Wolfprinces did not . |
15 | The agreement will make Tuxedo the only on-line transaction processing technology on mainframe AIX . |
16 | Families with sleep-destroying babies will enjoy Beeswax The Bad 's Noisy Night by Andrew and Paula Martyr ( Hamish Hamilton , £7.99 ) . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | The facts that will now be provided will give parents the missing information which will allow them to judge a school overall . |
19 | Combined with the preparatory work now being undertaken , that will give councils the maximum time to prepare themselves before April 1993 . |
20 | The Rest of the World will play Pakistan the following evening . |
21 | 'If my writings are to last , ’ he said in 1835 , ' … they will please tor the single cause , ‘ That we have all of us one human heart ’ . ’ |
22 | I hope that French as well as British and other readers will find Charles the Bald interesting — but not because he was French . |
23 | Born into an Italian upper-class family , he boasts the title of marchese and can claim Catherine the Great and de' Medici among his ancestors . |