Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | The purpose of this was to compare the experience of and attitude to the police of Blacks , Asians and Whites living in roughly the same conditions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They entered into an agreement by correspondence , each company writing in substantially the same terms to the other that they would not , without the written consent of the other , at any time , employ any person who during the past five years had been an employee of the other . |
| 6 | For a long time she lay , wide-eyed in the darkness , living over again the strange events of the day , until these thoughts and impressions gradually merged into dreams . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Different sizes , one heavier than the other , and yet they are going round exactly the same path in the same time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 16 | He thinks of that great opening shot in Le Métro and he realizes that her lips are moving in exactly the same way , her face pained as he does his practised best . |
| 17 | The termites continued to build their hills with their crest pointing in exactly the same direction as before , but they did change the disposition of their elongated chambers within the nest . |
| 18 | It is perfectly capable of wiping out even the largest enemy unit . |
| 19 | The child involved the mother at home in the project by hunting out scraps of fabric , discussing what they were , then bringing back home the finished house . |
| 20 | The curtains in the flat were drawn , cutting down even the poor light that remained from outside . |
| 21 | She is weak for lack of good food , she has plainly suffered from rickets , her body is not yet sufficiently mature for her to carry a child successfully to term , and on top of all that her baby is coming in quite the wrong fashion . |
| 22 | And this is assuming that Venus is travelling in exactly the same plane as the Earth 's orbit , which it probably would n't be . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 25 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 26 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 27 | Everything falling in exactly the same way is what is natural , not everything staying put the same way . |
| 28 | I have read a number of letters to the ZBS arguing in roughly the following terms : ‘ The national motto of our country is ‘ One Zambia One Nation' ’ . |
| 29 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 30 | When she checked through the spyhole it was standing in exactly the same spot , unmoving , like a lizard . |