Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] exactly [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 2 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |
| 3 | IT would be , presumably , rewarding to work out exactly the implications of the names of the four characters who figure in Philip Ridley 's play . |
| 4 | But er no , I would just keep on exactly the way you 're doing , I would n't |
| 5 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 6 | ‘ It all happened in exactly the way we wanted it to . |
| 7 | He is the managing director of a Highland company which , since he took over exactly a year ago , has increased its workforce from four to 14 and its turnover from £40,000 to £400,000 a year . |
| 8 | In all these cases the reaction of society as a whole in the face of ‘ The Thing ’ is like that of an organism attacked by a parasite , or a specialised aggressor : it behaves in exactly the way which renders the aggression successful . |
| 9 | Yet behind the grubby façades , if you know where to look , you can still find the Unani doctors , practising in exactly the way they always have . |