Example sentences of "nature of the [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What of the victim , be it child , young girl or mentally inadequate woman , who fails to make any demonstration of lack of consent because she does not appreciate the nature of the act or lacks the capacity to understand its significance ? |
| 2 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 3 | It will be appreciated that the precise nature of the degree or defect in acuity or field of vision is highly individual . |
| 4 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 5 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 6 | Batty recognises that he could have taken a sharper look at the derivative nature of the designs or examined some of the problems likely to face the company in the future . |
| 7 | The language of the Ordinance directs attention , not to the proceedings which led to the order from which the appeal is brought , but to the nature of the cause or matter ‘ in ’ which the appeal is brought . |
| 8 | A requirement of such a degree of knowledge might still cover the situation where a broker executes deals on behalf of an insider , as long as he knows of the nature of the deal or continues to execute orders despite strong suspicions . |
| 9 | This is subject to the defence that the accused did not know the nature of the information or realise that its disclosure would be damaging . |