Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst this is a fast and relatively painless process , the files will require handling in exactly the same way as if they had been transferred across a simple serial link . |
| 2 | Cardiff spun around in shock , seeing all of the others reacting in exactly the same way , as the hideous , agonised cacophony echoed and reverberated around them . |
| 3 | President F. W. de Klerk , in a radical speech at the state opening of Parliament on Feb. 2 , surprised supporters and critics alike by announcing not only the impending release of Nelson Mandela , the long-imprisoned leader of the country 's principal liberation movement , the African National Congress ( ANC ) , but also the unbanning of the ANC , the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC — the ANC 's smaller rival ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) . |
| 4 | Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock . |
| 5 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 6 | Now , as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10 , the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground , adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe . |
| 7 | But this is simply a roundabout way of reaffirming once again the fundamental significance of the fact that while men can use the apparatus of spoken language for " thinking " , other creatures can not . |
| 8 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 9 | Which makes new Gold for Cooking just about the only way you can cut down on fat without cutting out most of your favourite dishes . |
| 10 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 11 | That one the tuner just keeps hunting so maybe the aerial cable 's not connected to the tuner , we had one of them before did n't we , where they ? |
| 12 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 13 | It is therefore , Sartre argues , our historical task to make it known , promoting not just the historical process as such , but also the general recognition whereby the plurality of the meanings of individual histories can be seen to combine to make one history , with one meaning — the ‘ Truth of humanity ’ ( I , 822 ) . |
| 14 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 15 | A sudden sickness and fatigue swamped her , and she felt incapable of facing the long , painful inquest that would start in a few minutes — incapable of sustaining any longer the intolerable labour of love . |
| 16 | One general point about the international agreements on the laws of war : they have never been very successful in addressing directly either the general issue of bombing from the air , or the particular issue of the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | She was enclosed in a darkness where ignorance had no answers and she had no questions ready to ask — wandering back up the empty driveway , kicking a loose stone for company , on this bright and gloomy morning . |
| 18 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
| 19 | He strode on , pausing at the bottom of the meadow , looking back up the slight incline towards the barn . |
| 20 | Seconds later it was her turn as Travis 's large hand echoed her own movement , gliding silkily down the undulating length of her back , hip and thigh , sending frissons of pleasure dancing along her nerve-ends . |
| 21 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 22 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 23 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 26 | Erm so that 's going great , I think that 's really going well so the new design , I think we 're well in on . |
| 27 | Intellectuals young and old were apprehensive , wondering how far the conservative backlash would extend . |
| 28 | The problems of equipment-cost inflation have become so crucial in Defence planning that it is worth recalling briefly how the British weapon procurement system works . |
| 29 | ‘ Different sizes , one heavier than the other , and yet they are going round exactly the same path in the same time . |
| 30 | Other firms risk going too far the other way , imposing a too-narrow management — sometimes from outside the profession — and so alienating partners . |