Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice to see that it 's 13 without defeat in the league — the longest streak I can remember . |
| 2 | The more high-powered the job the more detailed these questions will be and the better prepared you will need to be to answer them . |
| 3 | Any proprietary bacterial/anti-parasite remedy will help , but in the long run you must ask yourself if your filtration is adequate , and whether your tank is overstocked . |
| 4 | When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year . |
| 5 | The best reply we can give is : There is a test ( see exercise 1.11.11 ) due to Kronecker which will always tell in a finite number of steps ( which may easily be large enough to require a computer ) whether or not a given element of Q[x] is irreducible . |
| 6 | The best answer you can give in these circumstances should provide the shape for your synopsis . |
| 7 | It was the best answer she could have expected ; but the memory of Fand sinking to the ground preyed on her . |
| 8 | Sometimes that 's the best help we can give . ’ |
| 9 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 10 | The best deal they could strike . |
| 11 | The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 — this includes a small fee for myself for the administration . |
| 12 | He had rejected the best deal she could offer him . |
| 13 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 14 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 15 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 16 | One of the best exercises you can use to develop this important body turn movement is to place a club behind your neck and hold it in position with your hands . |
| 17 | Twenty of the best acts you could imagine . |
| 18 | It 's the best result we could have hoped for . ’ |
| 19 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 20 | What we 're going to do is take you to the nearest place you can get a bus . |
| 21 | It 's a long way up to the road with a carry over the bridge to the nearest place you can park the car and trailer . |
| 22 | The wider the window the more slashes you should make . |
| 23 | And the more one knew , the more control one could wield over circumstance . |
| 24 | The higher the clay content , the more sticky the soil and the more care you must take . |
| 25 | However , it is not just the severely disabled who can benefit from computers . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've just said you 've got a great backside — and from a West Indian that 's the highest compliment you can have . ’ |
| 27 | A religious vocation is the highest call anyone may receive . |
| 28 | ‘ We have improved steadily , won two Five Nations games last season and pulled away from the lowest ebb anyone can remember . |
| 29 | As one of the Ultra team you will recall that precise statistics of our own losses was not always possible . |
| 30 | And the OFT said it would consider The Independent 's submission before deciding whether to launch an investigation under the Competition Act . |