Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have resigned myself wholly to the will of God — and trust that you and my dear sister will do the same … for He does nothing without a cause . |
| 2 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 3 | Professional installers may use the same materials , or perhaps special machinery to blow a blanket of loose mineral wool or fire-proofed cellulose fibre into the loft . |
| 4 | All political parties would have the same legal standing . |
| 5 | Readers of Rupert Murdoch 's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles . |
| 6 | The van Gogh and Walter-Guillaume suits , started last September and December respectively , could take three to four years and the Walters ' lawyers fear French authorities could divert the former case to an administrative Tribunal which could take a further three to four years to judge it . |
| 7 | Miners in the private licensed mines used to receive a few extra pounds for each shift to entice skilled workers away from the coal industry . |
| 8 | Against the powerful opposition of many in the Nazi hierarchy Vlasov 's German supporters could do no more than secure permission to use the general for propaganda purposes . |
| 9 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 10 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 11 | This luxuriant multiplicity means , of course , that different parties will explain the same events differently according to their selective , subjective view of the situation . |
| 12 | A patriotic feeling or the witnessing of a noble or generous action can evoke the same emotion . |
| 13 | Perhaps somebody in the EMI top management will rattle a few cages in their American office and get them to take note of Mr Lewis 's efforts for the British market . |
| 14 | Argentina and Brazil , in an effort to promote capital partnership and joint actions , agreed that bi-national companies should receive the same treatment as national capital companies . |
| 15 | First , a single sense can be modified in an unlimited number of ways by different contexts , each context emphasising certain semantic traits , and obscuring or suppressing others ; just as a dirty window-pane will allow some parts of the scene beyond it to be seen clearly , and will partially or completely obscure other parts — and a different pane will affect the same scene differently . |
| 16 | Tomorrow at the sprawling Ariake Tennis Centre here a changed , but not new , British team will face the same opponents , desperate to restore some of their lost pride . |
| 17 | Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example . |
| 18 | Similarly , the French team will re-analyse a few examples of survey data collected by research workers at the Institute of Psychiatry . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Minister for Public Transport may say a few words about funding if he feels that it is appropriate . |
| 20 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 21 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
| 22 | At the most basic level , a cordless handset will use the same number as your standard fixed line , and will only operate within 100 yards of it . |
| 23 | This means that different firms can adopt the same formal organisation trappings but still find themselves managing particular tasks in quite different ways . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman can commit no more money . |
| 25 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 26 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 27 | Different theories can have the same observational consequences . |
| 28 | No two old people will react the same way , so no standard procedure can be recommended . |
| 29 | Despite these upsets , it is clear from the joint Mitterrand and Kohl letters on European unification ( in April and December 1990 ) that French policy will remain the same , only more so . |
| 30 | Lesser players can try the same tack but run the risk of being berated by their amateur partners for being unfriendly or even unprofessional . |