Example sentences of "[be] of [art] [det] nature " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) .
2 It need not be exactly the same work but must be of the same nature and capacity and at the same place .
3 Experience , therefore , obliges me to conclude that there must be an intermediate link ; which must either be the same in others as in myself , or a different one ; … by supposing the link to be of the same nature
4 But the concept of pain which I have acquired in this way is such as to be applicable to others , by simply supposing that they have a sensation which is like the one I have ( Mill : ‘ by supposing the link to be of the same nature ’ ) .
5 ‘ A constable may arrest a person without warrant if — ( a ) he engages in offensive conduct which the constable warns him to stop , and ( b ) he engages in further offensive conduct immediately or shortly after the warning ( 5 ) In subsection ( 4 ) , ‘ offensive conduct ’ means conduct the constable reasonably suspects to constitute an offence under this section , and the conduct mentioned in paragraph ( a ) and the further conduct need not be of the same nature . ’
6 In this respect there is a certain similarity — hinted as , incidentally , by Spinoza himself — between substance and attributes ; both substance and its attributes , according to him , are " infinite " — i.e. they are ( unlike discrete things ) not limited by anything external that is of the same nature as themselves .
7 He advocated passive resistance to laws prohibiting Quaker worship , reasoning that mortal restraints on conscience were ineffective since force ‘ can reach no further than to that which is of the same nature with it ’ .
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