Example sentences of "in [adv] [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Coles 's book , the poets are described in much the same terms as ‘ The Warkton Strong Man ’ , ‘ The Stentorian Voiced Crier , Of Northampton ’ , and ‘ The Astonishing Reaper , of Great Doddington ’ . |
| 2 | The secondary school curriculum was described in much the same terms as in the previous framework , but time allocations were not specified . |
| 3 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 4 | And the sample should exhibit these characteristics and variations in much the same proportions as in the total population from which the sample has been drawn . |
| 5 | This sample must be " representative " ie exhibit characteristics and variations in attitude , behaviour , purchasing capability ( etc ) ( i ) relevant to the line of market research enquiry ; ( ii ) in much the same proportions as the total population from which the sample is drawn . |
| 6 | He outlined his purpose to the pair of journalists in much the same words as he had used to the members of the nascent Rothschild CPRS on the lawn at No. 10 in 1971 : |
| 7 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 8 | Climbing the hill to the village , spot posters , for both parties , in exactly the same windows as in last three elections : does no one ever move from here ? |
| 9 | The cut and blown glass ornaments were still set on their mirrored shelves in exactly the same positions as when he had unwrapped them . |
| 10 | Mary Poppins , manageress of the Cramlington Fund , sold an index future , and purchased the basket of shares in the index costing £60 000 in exactly the same proportions as used in computing the index . |
| 11 | Too many theorists have deluded the public by talking about one sort or another of ‘ Phantom Aesthetic State ’ ; in reality value in literature is explainable in exactly the same terms as value in any other form of human activity . |
| 12 | This second type of exclamation can not be analysed in exactly the same terms as the first type , however , since the infinitive refers to an event which has already occurred and not to one whose occurrence is an object of someone 's longing or desire . |
| 13 | When we use unc as a premultiplier of ( 1 ) we combine the rows of I in exactly the same ways as those of A. We can therefore write the two arrays side by side and operate on rows of 2n elements . |
| 14 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 15 | In just the few seconds that it took Roebuck to de-rail Shelford , a whole new Marty Roebuck fan club was born . |
| 16 | The House of Lords in that case was concerned with provisions in the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act 1977 which were in substantially the same terms as those to which I have referred in the Housing Act 1985 , as originally enacted . |
| 17 | This strategy is reminiscent of the poster ( visible , interestingly enough , in quite a few staffrooms and offices ) saying ‘ I 'm going to have my nervous breakdown . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Catherine is best seen , in the last analysis , in essentially the same terms as Frederick II . |