Isllamic law is a phenomenon so different from all other forms of law-notwithstanding, of course, a considerable and inevitable number of coincidences with one or the other of them as far as subject matter and positive enactments are concerned-that its study is indispensable in order to appreciate adequately the full range of possible legal phenomena.
解析: 本句这样的复杂修饰和插入语的作用差不多; 主语 achieving necessary matches 之后的修饰成分 in physical properties across interfaces between living and nonliving matter 把主语和谓语requires 分开。值得注意的是修饰宾主的 of which molecules 中的 which 在此不是定语从句的引导词,而是一个形容词,意思是哪个。