Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
2 | For the moment the immediate danger to William lay in Scotland , which was still an independent country , with no longer the same king as England . |
3 | Fascinatingly , the South American electric fish have hit upon almost exactly the same solution as the African ones , but not quite . |
4 | It is calculated in almost exactly the same way . |
5 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
6 | His statement — ‘ A lending library after all is only a means of delivering a commodity to consumers in pretty much the same sort of way as a supermarket . |
7 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
8 | It must have been favoured by selection , in very much the same way as , say , the hard shell of lobsters was favoured . |
9 | In very much the same way as I suggested with my analogy of the German and English rowers ( Chapter 5 ) . |
10 | On each occasion , the Republican administration was forced to stimulate the economy in very much the same way as the Democrats would have done . |
11 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
12 | However , it must be admitted that many of the greatest choral composers also restricted their horizons in very much the same way . |
13 | In Russia the latter element was uppermost , and peasants were conscripted as sailors in very much the same way as for the army . |
14 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
15 | A more recent sample , in very much the same tradition would be Minsky 's : |
16 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
17 | Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments . |
18 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
19 | But Sunsoft is not alone in its problems : Next Computer has had to delay the Intel version of its NextStep environment for pretty much the same reason . |
20 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
21 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
22 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
23 | Theseus is shown again at just about the same time , lifting Antiope into his chariot , an over life-size group from a pediment ( fig. 65 ) . |
24 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
25 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
26 | The market now stands at almost exactly the same level as when Chancellor Norman Lamont stood up and delivered his Budget speech one month ago . |
27 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
28 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
29 | Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu . |
30 | In Rostock , East Germany , and Greenwich , South London , the ugly face of racism reared its evil head last week at almost exactly the same time , victimising the innocent and intimidating the weak . |