Example sentences of "of [noun] [modal v] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 A rise in the nominal quantity of money will have the same effect , although the route here is slightly different .
2 It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails .
3 It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same .
4 Repetition of words can create the same sort of chain as pronouns , and there are sometimes good reasons for preferring it .
5 This would create a fairer system in which those in need of help would gain the most and in which a fairer balance would be struck between different forms of tenure .
6 What specific areas of marriage will cause the most conflict with your own selfishness ?
7 At the same time , also by means of forebrain action , all kinds of circumstances may impede the former function — inhibition arising from earlier training and experience , considerations of time and place , conscious moral outlooks etc .
8 Even the indignation of satire might assume the same moral perspective as that of the order being challenged , or at least an alternative to it .
9 Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 .
10 Anxious that the poorer areas in the east of Paris should have the same facilities as those in the west , the Emperor gave the land at Vincennes to the city and a huge park was constructed at the expense of the privy purse .
11 All forms of charity can have the same unfortunate , unintentional impact .
12 A majority of managers could say the same , so we can put away the handkerchiefs .
13 Above all , the principle that the Duke of Westminster should pay the same tax as someone on below average earnings , despite relief for the very poor , was simply unacceptable to a wide spectrum of the electorate .
14 ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’
15 ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’
16 If the membrane is permeable to X , then molecules will pass randomly across it , and the concentration of X will become the same inside and outside .
17 ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ?
18 A clear waiver of subrogation rights issued by the insurers is obviously preferred , but it is generally accepted that the noting of interests will have the same effect , although there is no guarantee of this .
19 Horses and ponies in the rest of Europe must have the same sort of protection as they do in this country .
20 Furthermore , understanding the acquisition of honour solely through a class analysis of Pisticci would miss the many subtleties engaged in by the residents .
21 The vagaries of history may lead the same States to favour each policy in turn according to changing circumstances : newly-independent States may resist being held bound by treaties entered into on their behalf , and therefore tend to favour the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine of succession , although their economic and technical interests may be better served by treaty continuity .
22 If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors .
23 Given an identical task , any of the nine copies of Oedipus will use the same quantity of resources and spend the same amount of time doing so .
24 Thus , for example , 10 grays ( Gy ) of alpha-particles will cause the same damage in living tissue as 200 Gy or 200 sievert ( Sv ) of X-rays , gamma-rays , or electrons ( table 5.1 explains the units employed ) .
25 With only four models in operation ( and of course in reality there are many more ) this kind of mismatch can take no fewer than twelve possible forms .
26 They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction .
27 I think that the Minister is saying that the Government 's view is that the basis of representation should remain the same — in which case , I am glad .
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