Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , strategy and industry specialist MC staff may assist MAS with acquisition searches and , where appropriate , MAS will recommend that the purchaser engages a KPMG general practice department to undertake an Investigation Service Report of the target . |
| 2 | The cost to subordinates , beyond the frustrations of trying to communicate past erroneous assumptions and obsolete knowledge , may include contending with training . |
| 3 | I welcome the introduction of gas as a fuel for power generation , but it must remain competitive with coal : that will produce the best prices for electricity consumers . |
| 4 | Half of you felt the journal should remain free with membership , as it is an important way of staying in touch with the Institution 's work ; while other members said they would willingly pay extra , over their subscription to receive it . |
| 5 | " I 've worked until I 've dropped so that I should fall asleep with exhaustion and not lie awake remembering you . |
| 6 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 7 | Nobody … nowhere … has ever seen so many Swindon fans before … and the Town players hearts must have thumping with pride as they emerged from the tunnel to be deafened by Wembley 's Wiltshire roar … |
| 8 | A longer pile carpet would flatten over time and might become slippery with wear . |
| 9 | Similar assistance is given to those who might become involved with Immigration Appeal Tribunals by U.K.I.A.S. , who receive Government money for the purpose . |
| 10 | The main drawback with the VDRL and other reagin tests is that they may become positive with conditions other than treponemal infection . |
| 11 | Small dark lesions appear where the Argulus was attached , which may become infected with fungus . |
| 12 | We speak of someone who is stiff-necked long before they may become crippled with arthritis . |
| 13 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 14 | Eventually they could become brittle with age , but this might take some years . |
| 15 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 16 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 17 | It was rash to complain of anything there : ‘ the slightest — you know , when my throat 's dry , you 'd get dosed with blackberry syrup , or if you felt a bit hot then you 'd get dosed with ground ivy tea . |
| 18 | It was rash to complain of anything there : ‘ the slightest — you know , when my throat 's dry , you 'd get dosed with blackberry syrup , or if you felt a bit hot then you 'd get dosed with ground ivy tea . |
| 19 | He 'd worked hard , smoothly , with humour and enjoyment , thought Julia with sudden distaste , so that five old men could get drunk with ceremony . |
| 20 | He could get involved with children and be affectionate and spend time with them . |
| 21 | Economics can provide several insights into what may go wrong with market forces in R&D . |
| 22 | It is said that he tried to dissuade his sons from studying mathematics so that the name of Gauss would remain synonymous with excellence . |
| 23 | The hall would become alive with people rather like a railway terminus , and at the heart of the seeming chaos , controlling and directing , helping and explaining , were the staff of the reception desk . |
| 24 | He was away for weeks at a time and would return laden with gigots of Algerian lamb , jars of oil , sacks of pulses ; Madame ran the propriété , which was large , and not labour-intensive ( words that entered Frederica 's vocabulary ca. 1960 ) . |
| 25 | Also , because as served in 99 out of 100 Chinese restaurants , they would arrive sticky with grease and boiled to a hue of nauseously vivid waxy-yellow . |
| 26 | It is particularly ironic , then , that the next lady to whom Wilekin must plead , Dame Sirith , does heed his perseverance in pleading , which includes some good courtly motifs : ( " Unless she changes her mind I shall go mad with sorrow or kill myself . " ) |
| 27 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 28 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 29 | There were occasions when we would get hysterical with delight at uncovering yet another layer of our much maligned identity , and find the words to talk about it . |
| 30 | Uncle Eugenio would get mad with frustration , utterly unable to find the words to refute the fact that illusions might provoke real tears . |