Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] precisely the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
2 | 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 ) . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The only snag is the ‘ Fair Credit Reporting Act ’ , insisting that any rejection at this stage is based on precisely the same criteria on which the original offer was made . |
6 | a standard format ensures that each site responds to precisely the same questions ; |
7 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
8 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
9 | ‘ In multicountry research , the extent to which questions are formulated in precisely the same terms needs to be considered . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ By an astonishing coincidence in the examiners ’ model solution precisely the same piece of goobledegook appears at precisely the same point . ’ |
15 | But , as the focal length of the projector increases , making the screen image smaller , the focal length of the camera lens is increasing at precisely the same rate ( zoom lenses commonly run from about 25mm to over 200mm in focal length ) . |
16 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
17 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
18 | Both boats are aimed at precisely the same market . |