Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Many years later Alison behaved in exactly the same way .
2 Two days after changing tack , Alexander set up a Commission on the Reorganization of Provincial and District Institutions to work out how the new principle was to be embodied in legislation .
3 In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist .
4 In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses .
5 Paige strained her ears to pick up even the slightest sound .
6 Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan .
7 Ezekiel speaks in much the same strain , and specifically attributes this change to the Spirit of God :
8 As we have seen , constituency seats and list seats were not equal in number , nor in 1961 was the allotment of seats to parties calculated in exactly the same way as it is now .
9 Your eurocheque card works in exactly the same way as a Midland AutoCheque Card .
10 ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm .
11 For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available .
12 Monotype works in broadly the same way as Linotype machines .
13 There are difficulties in identifying areas common to the brains of people and other animals and , even when that can be done , it is unclear how far one can rely on the areas working in exactly the same way .
14 And unfortunately the bills comes in just the same as you 've got to stick it .
15 Using the ranking ( or confidence ) information for the list of candidate strings , we can reduce the problem somewhat , by trying the standard four error correction approaches on just the top 10 candidate strings .
16 The working-scale model included part of a farm with a stream running through and including three clamp silos from which effluent poured in exactly the same proportions as from clamps containing grass treated in different ways .
17 Urban Development Corporations were introduced in 1981 in London Docklands and Merseyside , and the Urban Development Grant came in late the following year .
18 He dies lying across his brother 's body , a complicated split screen effect in which Irons was first Elliot , sprawled half-sitting against the wall with a stand-in across his lap , and then Beverly lying in exactly the same position as the stand-in for a matte shot to be inserted in the first image .
19 Guests staying in either the main building or the annexe , just 15 yards away , can expect a comfortable bedroom with telephone and , for a small extra fee , satellite TV can be installed .
20 Failure to mark out explicitly the structural organisation of what a speaker wishes to communicate may make the addressee 's task of interpretation more difficult , perhaps , but , by itself , would not necessarily constitute a failure to communicate .
21 But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings .
22 The coal boats lay out where the old barge is now and the drifters went alongside them to get coal .
23 Guests stay in either the main building ( with lift ) , where bedrooms are traditionally furnished and have a balcony , or in the newly renovated , more modern , villa annexe ( nearer the road ) .
24 The reductionism at work in the other three statements moves in exactly the opposite direction .
25 Buildings behave in much the same way .
26 Sedges behave in much the same way as grasses , having their stripes neatly arranged along the leaf .
27 Of course much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time .
28 Much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time , while for Business Studies and Public Relations students life looks pretty rosy .
29 Thus , because the components of all four-vectors transform in precisely the same way , it follows that Therefore the invariant length of any local four-vector is unaffected by general transformations .
30 ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . )
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