Example sentences of "[adv prt] precisely the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The whole Western idea of mental health runs in precisely the opposite direction : what is desirable is congruity between your self-consciousness and your natural being . |
2 | Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction … |
3 | Our results suggest that our subjects were thinking in precisely the opposite way ( at least on their second repetition ) . |
4 | Those inside it behaved in precisely the same way . |
5 | Now close your eyes and try to visualize that object in your mind , seeing it in precisely the same detail as before . |
6 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
7 | On their next public appearance he treated her in precisely the same way . |
8 | This argument misses the point that Freud 's notion of instinct is a link concept between the bio-physical and the experiential — geese do not experience in precisely the same sense as human beings do . |
9 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
10 | Clearly , the railways will run in precisely the same way whether the railwaymen use this facility or not , so there is no extra charge to the Railways Board itself , therefore there would be no taxable benefits . |
11 | Paul sees it in precisely the same way as John . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | and yet more ironically Margery replies in precisely the same terms : ( " God reward you for your labour " ) |
14 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
15 | I mean it does n't pick up precisely the same colour but that in there |
16 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
17 | We are now in a position to spell out precisely the basic form of the recurrent contrast test for semantic constituency : |
18 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |