Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 2 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 3 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 4 | Personal narratives or short autobiographical pieces function organisationally in much the same way as fictional narratives , except that the writer is constrained by existential rather than imagined events . |
| 5 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
| 6 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 7 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 8 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 9 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 10 | The two ( realistic ) perspectives remaining are positions based respectively in either the author-oriented judgement or in the reader-oriented judgement of the communicative situation ( but not both simultaneously ) . |
| 11 | It is far more important to be moving forward in broadly the right directions than to be stuck still without the businesses going anywhere . |
| 12 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 13 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 14 | The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline . |
| 15 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 16 | In his second reading speech on the National Assistance Bill in 1947 , for example , Aneurin Bevan argued that the accommodation in a local authority old person 's home should be charged for in just the same way as that in a private hotel or nursing home , ‘ so that any old persons who wish to go may go there in exactly the same way as many well-to-do people have been accustomed to go into residential hotels ’ ( HC Debates , 1947 , Col. 1609 ) . |
| 17 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
| 18 | So again we find out that erm , the expected price in T minus one , sorry in T , is a function of all previous prices all previous prices , okay and it wo n't surprise you to find out that the weight giving to treating the historical prices right becomes geometrically in exactly the same way as the adapted , as the partial adjustment er co-efficient or the partial adjustment model implied alright . |
| 19 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 20 | The smooth , or flush sided exterior of these ‘ Coronation ’ coaches was in Prussian Blue , with silver streaks , that continued back in parallel the whole length of the train , beginning from an inverted prow point on the circular casing over the locomotive 's smoke box door . |
| 21 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |
| 22 | If the target is slain then the bolt penetrates to the second rank and hits again in exactly the same way as a normal bolt thrower . |
| 23 | ( paras 9.19–9.20 ; our italics ) ‘ Security ’ and ‘ control ’ are hardly novel concepts , figuring significantly in both the orthodox account and in Fitzgerald and Sim 's ‘ crisis of containment ’ . |