Example sentences of "[vb base] the [det] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency .
2 Slim people generally eat the same kinds of food that fatter people like to eat .
3 This section is concerned with the introduction and application of certain particularly useful types of equivalent circuit that display the same form of linear small-signal response as any nonlinear four-terminal network .
4 Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them .
5 To my great surprise , I found that in all types of managerial organization in many different countries over 35 years , people in roles at the same time span experience the same weight of responsibility and declare the same level of pay to be fair , regardless of their occupation or actual pay .
6 and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for
7 But when such people are exposed to a high-fat Western diet , they develop the same type of preferences as Westerners .
8 The court has before it two appeals which raise the same point of law , that is to say , can a child who is born alive , but suffering from disabilities occasioned by negligence on the part of the proposed defendant at a time when the child was en ventre sa mère and unborn , maintain an action for damages for negligence against the defendant .
9 For these mistakes have led to the belief that extension , the subject-matter of geometry , is infinitely divisible , a belief ‘ thought to have so inseparable and essential a connection with the principles and demonstrations in geometry , that mathematicians never … make the least question of it ’ .
10 The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S.
11 Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are .
12 To satisfy their interests they too need to know more , and in the meantime suffer the same sense of incompleteness .
13 One was a hunt for witches , the other for Communists , but they involve the same function of the human mind .
14 These invaluable references can save you pounds on technical reference guides and provide the same level of accurate information as a book , only the text is at your fingertips .
15 Always provide the same kind of plant as that on which the eggs were laid .
16 of the defence budget and that no other known system could be so cost effective but still provide the same degree of security ?
17 If you or one of your sons incline to continue that business you may , I believe , send the same number of boxes here , that you used to send to England ; because England will then send here , for what it wants in that way .
18 Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material .
19 Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers .
20 But when you explore the same region of the visual field with a moving spot you get a result that you could not have predicted from the responses with stationary spots .
21 Uranus and Neptune occupy the same degree of your sign on February 2 and October 24 and , although these periods may coincide with an awakening of sorts , you are bound to experience some sense of unreality .
22 The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page .
23 a font in which all characters occupy the same amount of horizontal width regardless of the character .
24 ‘ Yes , but nomes say the same sort of things , Thing .
25 The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows .
26 The next writer , Erica De'Ath , begins to open up the field in which child care needs arise , families and children , and the many changing patterns of family life which characterize the latter half of the twentieth century .
27 Although Landsats 4 and 5 have a lower orbital altitude ( 705 km ) than Landsats 1–3 , their orbits cover the same proportion of the Earth 's surface — that between 82°N and S latitude .
28 The three Gospels cover the same course of the life and work of Jesus .
29 They cover the same period of history and yet talk about it in completely different ways .
30 On the hearing of the petition , the court may : ( i ) make a bankruptcy order ; or ( ii ) make a bankruptcy order and issue a certificate for the summary administration of the bankrupt 's estate ( where the total debts do not exceed the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , and the bankrupt has not been adjudicated bankrupt before in the last five years nor has he entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement ) ( s 275 ) ; ( iii ) make a bankruptcy order and appoint the former supervisor of a voluntary arrangement as trustee provided that notice of the supervisor 's intention to seek appointment as a trustee was given in the petition and to the creditors ; ( iv ) appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report under s 273 .
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