Example sentences of "the [adj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Boss-9000 can interface with Unix workstations or real-time data acquisition systems via a VMEbus interface . |
| 2 | A more remunerative price structure for agricultural products and other measures to raise incomes for the poorest may encourage the use of purchased alternative fuels other than wood or cowdung . |
| 3 | Save The Children helps youngsters living and working on the streets , it runs schools where the poorest can get hot meals and lessons . |
| 4 | Erm , but er it 's , it 's quite wrong that pensioners and er , the poorest should have to take cuts again erm when there 's people on such high salaries . |
| 5 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |
| 6 | ( Admiration for the strong can turn into an implicit condemnation of the weak . ) |
| 7 | Only the strong will survive . |
| 8 | He suggested that there should be drawn up such an ideal optimum , and only then should the private sector be taken into account to see how the ‘ ideal ’ and the possible would diverge , but always attempting to push towards the ideal . |
| 9 | The political can retain an ethical foundation : Levinas finds his example for this , unexpectedly , in Marx 's famous comment on idealist philosophers — that the point is not to describe the world but to change it : |
| 10 | We can then fit into the convention binding agreements on subjects like energy efficiency and forestry , as the science and the political will come into balance . ’ |
| 11 | Evolution — the appearance of grasses , for example , in the Tertiary could have reduced erosion rates |
| 12 | The Agreement sets out parallel texts to the existing provisions on Social Policy in the Treaty of Rome which the eleven will apply in deciding social matters . |
| 13 | and er , and well , well , one can be abrupt at times and the that could lead |
| 14 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 15 | Binary code compiled for the 80486 will run on Pentium with a 10% performance loss and binary compiled for Pentium will run on the 80486 . |
| 16 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 17 | Victories would put the Irish on 17 points , Denmark on 16 with Spain still on 13 although the Spanish would have a game in hand . |
| 18 | The Spanish could pay for such things out of their gold and silver ; the English could not afford such things , and ran fairly frugal colonial administrations , whose pay was often in arrears whether it was supposed to be paid by the English government , the colonial taxpayers , or the company which had a charter to operate in the region . |
| 19 | Northumbria police said the eight will appear before magistrates in Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , this morning charged with causing criminal damage with intent to endanger life . |
| 20 | The eight will share only 1.5m shares between them , representing just 2.4% of the shares the company will have outstanding after the 5.1m share issue . |
| 21 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 22 | Most of the F1-11s will remain on active service at an airbase in the United States . |
| 23 | the head office of the multinational should try to establish standard methods of research , so that data collected in each country will be more readily comparable ; |
| 24 | Here , we see the state as an ardent suitor , suddenly aware of the rich dowry the multinational can bring to the national economy . |
| 25 | The retired can squat , smoke , reminisce and grow old and die in familiar , comfortable surroundings . |
| 26 | and the bloody will fly off wo n't it ? |
| 27 | Then the righteous will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you , or thirsty and gave you drink , a stranger and took you home , or naked and clothed you ? |
| 28 | The righteous need have no fears . |
| 29 | Which could be seen as a good thing ; after all , in the eyes of sceptical guitarists the GR-1 could stand or fall on its immediate user-friendly appeal . |
| 30 | But for this timely find , Dundee School for the Deaf would have been blown to pieces , along with the Deaf Centre . |