Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall . |
| 2 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 3 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 4 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 5 | ‘ Yousefi has a wife and three children who will of course suffer the same fate if the Home Secretary 's decision is to deport him . ’ |
| 6 | Honey contains some sucrose as well as glucose and fructose ; 1 teaspoon of honey has the same amount of calories as one teaspoon of sucrose . |
| 7 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 8 | The process of feedback follows the same pattern of encoding , signalling and decoding . |
| 9 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 10 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 11 | As befits such a highly desirable collection , each plate is individually hand numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity bearing the same number , thus establishing each plate 's place in the edition . |
| 12 | Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same : |
| 13 | First , though there have been some marginal changes , most notably in the steady trickle away from the north and west to the south and east , the main features of the regional distribution of population remain the same . |
| 14 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 15 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 16 | Nor does each type of evidence carry the same weight . |
| 17 | Our sense of achievement lasted the few hours until we collected the kids . |
| 18 | It was found that the hsdS ts-1 gene , present on this plasmid , failed to produce the temperature-sensitive R-M phenotype ; the efficiency of plating of bacteriophage lambda was reduced by approximately four orders of magnitude to give the same efficiency of plating observed with the wild type R-M system . |
| 19 | Both of the basic purposes of education require the same essential tools . |
| 20 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 21 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 22 | In each case the overall aims of nursing remain the same . |
| 23 | All stuff , cos then we , they imported a lot of er razors and erm all different television stuff and we had a lot of beer come in from erm Germany , lot of beer come the that stuff , that 's a Dutch beer . |
| 24 | But the job of captain remains the same : you have to work in with the coaches , motivate the players and gain their respect . |
| 25 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 26 | Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production . |
| 27 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 28 | In some languages the grammatical encoding of topic is so prominent , that it is not clear that the notion of subject has the same purchase as it does in the analysis , for example , of Indo-European languages ( Li & Thompson , 1976 ) . |
| 29 | Third party suppliers of gas use the same regional transmission and distribution systems . |
| 30 | Criticisms of Williamson 's efficiency rationale of hierarchy have the same basis as criticisms of his approach in general , and are dealt with in Section 3 below . |