Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] exactly the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 2 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 3 | The least attractive side for paid golfers must be the continual travel , the airports , the courtesy car that fails to show , the lost baggage , and the certainty that when they get there , they 'll see exactly the same faces , talking the same shop , week after week . |
| 4 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 5 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 6 | We could do exactly the same with sport , like we could do it with art and theatre and music and , and a hell of a lot of other things , but it 's unfortunately a part of our national political tradition that a large number of us feel some reluctance about doing this . |
| 7 | Scientists could become exactly the copious ‘ self-copiers ’ that their records managers are trying to discourage , merely to demonstrate the stage of their input . |
| 8 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 9 | ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones . |
| 10 | If the planning application , as the gentleman in in the rear says er went through with a cottage , and a house , he 'd have exactly the same |
| 11 | ‘ I could say exactly the same . |
| 12 | I understand absolutely , I , I could say exactly the same so , do n't . |
| 13 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 14 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 15 | We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it . |
| 16 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 17 | His defence was to insist that he would do exactly the same again under the same circumstances . |
| 18 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 19 | As he sat on the mud floor of his cell , disdaining the bed , he said that he would do exactly the same again . |
| 20 | If we were in opposition we would do exactly the same . |
| 21 | Thus , would give exactly the same results as the previous example . |
| 22 | All the 300dpi libraries for HP printers and the like would look exactly the same because they are designed as bitmaps . |
| 23 | Well you 'd just get Y equals A graph that would look exactly the same as Y equals X to the . |
| 24 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 25 | When this legislation is pushed through , we shall face exactly the same as happened with the poll tax . |
| 26 | The difficulty , for the commission , is that if it abandoned the present formula , it would face exactly the same problems as national governments , seeking to foster advanced technology but fearful of the temptation of ‘ backing winners ’ . |
| 27 | In order to define completely where you are right now you would need to use four mathematical coordinates , not three , and each of these would have exactly the same status as the rest . |
| 28 | But for the words italicised ‘ financial year ’ and ‘ accounting reference period ’ would mean exactly the same thing ; as it is they need not . |
| 29 | They would pay exactly the same under the rents-to-mortgages scheme as they currently pay in rent — but they would be acquiring their homes , rather than simply being tenants . |
| 30 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |