Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 2 | The humiliations may show us the strength of the opposition which the world , temporal and spiritual , sets up against him , but they promise too the kind of imaginative and moral strength which will raise him about it . |
| 3 | England were due to meet Wales in the final match of the round robin series today knowing that a share of the honours would give them the crown . |
| 4 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 5 | The Americans would give him the key to the US armoury . |
| 6 | All they need is the planning permission and certainly the landowners will sell them the land , and if we put in stringent rules and regulations then we could control it properly . |