Example sentences of "[vb mod] agree with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the factsheet can be lifted from the executive summary of the information memorandum ( or vice versa ) ; information in the overview must agree with the full memorandum |
| 2 | ‘ I tell you , there are times when I could agree with the good doctor of Norwich , old Tom Browne , that it were better if we humans propagated in the manner of trees . |
| 3 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 4 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 5 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 6 | As Bosch and Tasmowski & Verluyten have shown , pronouns following such words may agree with the syntactic gender of the noun or with the natural gender of the person referred to . |
| 7 | An unmarried partner may agree with the surviving relatives that provision will be made for him or her from the estate , but this is not always possible . |
| 8 | I am not sure that I can agree with the last sentiment that my hon. Friend expressed . |
| 9 | We can agree with the orthodox account on many details concerning the component factors of the crisis . |