Example sentences of "in precisely the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 2 | Umpire Barker made no response to the appeal , whereupon Richards — who at slip was in precisely the wrong place to see what had happened — danced down the pitch waving his right hand frantically , giving every appearance that he was about to remonstrate forcefully with the umpire ; whereupon Mr Barker raised his finger and Bailey was on his way . |
| 3 | ‘ In multicountry research , the extent to which questions are formulated in precisely the same terms needs to be considered . |
| 4 | Agnes knew that gesture : her daughter Brigitte shook her head and lifted her brows in precisely the same way . |
| 5 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
| 6 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 7 | The geneticist should recognize genes ‘ for ’ house shape in precisely the same sense as there are genes for , say , leg shape . |
| 8 | More important , to claim that a film can ‘ inject ’ the gullible , mid-American viewer with homophobia is to interpret the relation between representation and action in precisely the same crude , causal way as a Jesse Helms or a Mary Whitehouse . |
| 9 | To claim that a film can ‘ inject ’ the gullible viewer with homophobia is to interpret … in precisely the same crude , causal way as Mary Whitehouse |
| 10 | Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches . |
| 11 | In French cookery clarified beef suet , pigs ' lard and goose fat are used in precisely the same way to seal pâtés and home-preserved pork and goose . |
| 12 | It can not be supposed , then , that the STV would work in the United Kingdom in precisely the same ways as it does in Ireland . |
| 13 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |
| 14 | It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way . |
| 15 | Suspects and witnesses have special characteristics that will not be found in precisely the same mix in other randomly chosen members of the population and can not , therefore , be precisely re-enacted with others . |
| 16 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 17 | Now , in no constitutional state is it true that the legislative and executive functions are in precisely the same hands , for … the executive must always be a smaller body than the legislature . |
| 18 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 19 | Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth . |
| 20 | Hölderlin 's vision of Greece is , like Winckelmann 's , idyllic , but not in precisely the same way . |
| 21 | But my location 321762 is in precisely the same position in my cells as your location 321762 is in your cells . |
| 22 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 23 | The stream of expected earnings is discounted in precisely the same way as the stream of expected dividends using the same discount rate ( because the discount rate applies to the risk class of the activities of the entire firm ) . |
| 24 | The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts . |
| 25 | In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended . |
| 26 | An equitable mortgagee seeking possession is in precisely the same position as a legal mortgagee ( Barclays Bank Ltd v Bird [ 1954 ] Ch 274 at p 280 ) , but the remedy of an equitable chargee is only by way of sale ( see The Supreme Court Practice Vol 1 at 50/1 — 9/23 ) . |
| 27 | Its acquisition of NCR is moving the company in precisely the opposite direction |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Finchley said yesterday that she would vote for the Government because they were following a path that she favoured — in precisely the opposite direction . |