Example sentences of "[vb mod] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 30 in a joint news conference in Caracas , the Venezuelan capital , with President Carlos Andrés Pérez ( who had been instrumental in initiating the peace process ) Cristiani had offered the FMLN guerrillas a " broad amnesty " and a " plot of land " and confirmed that the government would legalize an FMLN political party should the latter wish to participate in elections . |
| 2 | Should the same debates apply to this ? |
| 3 | Why should the same weight be given to Harry 's second preference or Dick 's fifth as to Tom 's first " ? |
| 4 | Why should the same peptide ‘ mean ’ the same highly specific memory/behaviour in different animals/species ? |
| 5 | Should the same scenario arise under the new law , it is suggested that the following analysis applies . |
| 6 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 7 | Why , for example , should the same people who throng to welcome Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem clamour only days later for his death ? |
| 8 | If Skinner is right , and children 's language is strongly influenced by the way in which those around them respond , how much more effective might the same processes be if they were applied deliberately and systematically . |
| 9 | Could the same effect be reached in modern English , with its much fiercer attitude towards phrasal looseness ? |
| 10 | Could the same result be obtained by transplanting a nucleus from well-differentiated cells ? |
| 11 | Could the same thing happen with a single bite from an apple ? |
| 12 | Would the same principle of sudden and catastrophic meltwater releases to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in the greenhouse world to come ? |
| 13 | Would the same result not have been obtained without the group ? |
| 14 | But would the same objection have such weight if one judicial system applied to individuals and the other to corporations ( and other organizations ) ? |
| 15 | With the reservation , following Bolton , ‘ that a small firm could not be adequately defined in terms of employment or assets , turnover or any other arbitrary single quantity , nor would the same definition be appropriate through the economy ’ , we can adopt with him an upper limit of 200 employees for small manufacturing firms ; and note that , in 1963 , when he adopted that limit , the average number of people employed in such a firm was 25 . |
| 16 | Now she asked herself would the same thing happen again if she surrendered ? |
| 17 | Just remember that as the State withers away , so will the many evils which accompany the capitalist state . |
| 18 | Will the same procedure be introduced here ? |
| 19 | What this hypothetical committee chairman has to offer a president is self-evident , but what favours can the latter trade in return for the chairman 's support ? |
| 20 | When he eventually leaves that employer how far can the latter control the ex-employee 's ability to deal with the clients which he brought with him . |
| 21 | Assuming that this kind of non-instrumental justification applies to consent and can provide a foundation for the authority of the state over those of its citizens who have consented to its authority , can the same argument be used to base authority on the attitude of respect ? |
| 22 | But can the same words carry different meanings ? |