Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] agree with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checks should be made that the total on the tally roll of all the tills in restaurants , bars , and cash desks should agree with the cash returned by the cashiers . |
| 2 | Perhaps NCR 's shareholders should agree with him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Shapes should agree with choices ( i.e. it should be " choices that shape … " ) but the intervening " that " seems to have interfered , as though it is taken to be a singular subject . |
| 5 | It has already been pointed out that the definition of a rural area , or a rural community , is an elusive concept , but many authors would agree with Bealer et al . |
| 6 | Are you frightened some of your readers will agree with the aims as outlined in what I believe form part of the BNP manifesto : support for reintroduction of both capital and corporal punishment , withdrawal from EEC membership , return to National Service , to name but a few items . |
| 7 | King & McGaw 's order and delivery department enable us to feature posters for almost any book promotion we have undertaken at very short notice , and its warehouse staff can pick , pack and despatch any quantity of posters from a large range with a speed that would make most book publishers ' head spin ( with a twice-weekly delivery and a next day customer order service , I think most booksellers would agree with me ) . |
| 8 | The legal advisers to the managers should agree with the investors ' lawyers at an early stage exactly what is required to satisfy the conditions . |
| 9 | Most full-blooded painters would agree with this I think ! ) ’ |
| 10 | Even geneticists would agree with that . ’ |
| 11 | Londoners may agree with Labour that their city ‘ is losing the confidence of the people who live and work there ’ because of its dirt , noise , congestion and crime ; but they are probably not yet convinced that voting Labour will provide the remedy . |
| 12 | Most teachers would agree with this statement and , indeed , say that they use a variety of approaches and methods in their work , suiting them to the needs of the individual learner and the stage that pupil has reached . |
| 13 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 14 | No , I , I 'll , I 'll agree with that , and I think the players will agree with that , it 's not as though , it looks as though we 've got absolutely murdered again Saturday Mick , three nothing , as I said , it stops at me , and if they 're not going to do what I want them to do , then I 'll leave them out the team . |
| 15 | Not all clubs will agree with him . |
| 16 | Leeds is a thriving , vibrant and prosperous city and I 'm sure 740,000 fellow Leeds lovers would agree with me . |
| 17 | And as we shall see in the next chapter , a number of feminists would agree with them about that . |
| 18 | The Formalists would agree with T.S . |
| 19 | I suspect that the Prime Minister and the other Ministers would agree with our great national poet , William Shakespeare , that ’ Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds . ’ |
| 20 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 21 | But many less naive commentators would agree with Jespersen 's focus on the sexual division of labour , which produces a high degree of sex segregation and a considerable difference in the day to day activities of women and men . |
| 22 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 23 | There is , however , yet another way in which modern anthropologists could agree with Marx , Engels , and Morgan concerning the ‘ group ’ aspect of marriage . |
| 24 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 25 | ( Actually his dismissal of this type of evidence as not being relevant to institutions is one many anthropologists would agree with . ) |
| 26 | Furthermore , all anthropologists would agree with Engels that the type of marriage and the type of family are linked directly to a whole range of other political and economic institutions , which explain and correlate the variation . |
| 27 | I doubt whether this is done deliberately , but I think it 's part of everybody 's perception of science in schools that girls do biology and boys do chemistry and physics , and I suppose this is bound to have its affect on people 's choices , but I personally , and I think most of my colleagues would agree with me on this , see no reason to suppose that girls should be any less good at chemistry and physics than boys . |
| 28 | The Commission are seeking an emergency meeting with Grampian region 's planning authority to put this point , and no doubt many hilltrampers will agree with their crew . |