Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | All political parties would have the same legal standing . |
| 4 | Readers of Rupert Murdoch 's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 7 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 8 | This luxuriant multiplicity means , of course , that different parties will explain the same events differently according to their selective , subjective view of the situation . |
| 9 | A patriotic feeling or the witnessing of a noble or generous action can evoke the same emotion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This means that different firms can adopt the same formal organisation trappings but still find themselves managing particular tasks in quite different ways . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Different theories can have the same observational consequences . |
| 21 | No two old people will react the same way , so no standard procedure can be recommended . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lesser players can try the same tack but run the risk of being berated by their amateur partners for being unfriendly or even unprofessional . |
| 24 | Universality refers to the fact that totally different systems can exhibit the same route to chaos — the same not just in that they show the same broad features , but very closely the same including quantitative details . |
| 25 | It is hoped that the British unit might do the same . |
| 26 | Different records might call the same man husbandman and yeoman , but as he progressed , the latter description would be used with increasing consistency . |
| 27 | Alternatively , we can also hypothesise that if there is a change in proprioception , pointing with the non-preferred hand should show no adaptive shift , while pointing with the preferred hand at the non-visual target should show the same adaptive shift as that for the visual target . |
| 28 | This incentive to screen will not operate effectively if the strategy sets of agents are very limited ; different types will select the same actions if constrained in their choice . |
| 29 | The education of the autistic child will require the same heightened degree of patience and discipline required for the child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 30 | There are of course some deliberately emphasized exceptions : destitution , like that depicted in Alton Locke and Mary Barton , precludes decency ; moral turpitude may have the same effect , as in the case of Mrs Brown in Dombey and Son — ‘ In an ugly and dark room , an old woman , ugly and dark too ’ . |