Example sentences of "[verb] agree with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As we noted , nominal predicates tend to agree with actual number and person , finite verbs with the morphological person and number encoded in the polite form of the pronoun , with language-specific decisions on predicates of intermediate kind .
2 Micro Decisionware Inc has agreed with NeXT Computer Inc to provide connectivity between NeXTStep and its Database Gateway product line .
3 The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other .
4 happen to agree with all of these propositions .
5 Our results seem to agree with recent findings of a breast cancer study among postmenopausal women by Sellars et al .
6 They seem to agree with Grady that ‘ Many issues of sex bias can be addressed by making research in psychology more scientific …
7 Mrs Jones 's response was ‘ No way am I going to agree with that . ’
8 Porter seems to agree with this view , but says that the extra value obtained from putting the results of the sorts of analyses that he recommends into the matrix form is marginal compared to the value derived from the underlying analysis itself .
9 But Lewis , a Protestant , might have agreed with that .
10 He would have agreed with that .
11 Edmund Burke , the Whig politician who became the founding philosopher of modern British Conservatism , would certainly have agreed with that .
12 John McLeish , seated at the other side of a table from Commander Stevenson , would have agreed with this judgement .
13 It is clear , though , that scholars from protagoras to the nineteenth century would not have agreed with this .
14 But the violent character of the BUF and its unashamed adoption of foreign symbols made it unattractive to many who might otherwise have agreed with some of its policies , and made it doubly obnoxious to the Left .
15 One may take leave to wonder whether , if Aristotle had pondered even more deeply on the nature of citizenship , he would have agreed with these schools and added ; health and safety ; eating for health ; smoking ; sexual relationships and decision making ; or body abuse .
16 Before this I would probably have agreed with British Rail that it would cause too much trouble .
17 Well , having agreed with that , Freud then , faces a problem , because the problem he faces is , that in the previous book of his , that we looked at er , that he had published erm , what fourteen or so years earlier , Totem and Taboo where he had talked about the origin of religion .
18 Leaving aside any suspicion that people might tend to agree with any suggestion put to them that they should have more information , how helpful can this information be in practice ?
19 How well does this model agree with existing data ?
20 And I know a lot of Labour people do agree with that .
21 Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one .
22 Although I do agree with some of his points — the need for more public courses and more emphasis put on rules of etiquette — I was somewhat alarmed to read that in the interests of quicker play , we high-handicappers were being relegated to a boring , 9-hole course until we improve our game enough to join ‘ the big boys on the big-boys ’ course ’ .
23 Of course , people did agree with each other , and they did disagree , and they argued , persuaded , insinuated .
24 Erm I , I never did agree with that very much really .
25 She had to agree with that .
26 Whereas earlier they had agreed with each other , now they did n't .
27 At a meeting in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , UN officials had agreed with Sudanese government and SPLA representatives on the transporting of relief supplies to the government-held town of Juba , 120 km north of the border with Uganda , by river barge .
28 Dod had agreed with that , but could n't quite remember where he 'd left the van .
29 If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action .
30 Mr Paisley denied a claim by Labour MP Dennis Skinner that Unionist politicians had agreed with both front benches ‘ to be silent about such atrocities ’ .
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