Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devotees don their kinte-cloth caps in much the same spirit as British Thatcherites sport their tweeds and Republicans their blazers . |
| 2 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | The music you need one bar of music line with those blobs which are the note heads in exactly the right places . |
| 5 | He could rely on some influential supporters in both the British and the American presses . |
| 6 | But it is a happy thought that Glenda Jackson probably affects Conservative supporters in much the same way . |
| 7 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 8 | This test is based on the following implications of the hypothesis : if expectations of a variable are rational , they are formed in accordance with the process determining that variable and therefore they will depend upon any set of past variables in exactly the same way as the variable itself depends upon that set of past variables . |
| 9 | From behind two hands gripped his shoulders in much the same way that an old tree root coils relentlessly around a pebble . |
| 10 | The JCT was set up to prepare and publish standard forms of building contract , its constituent members including organisations representing clients in both the public and private sectors , the professions , main contractors in the building industry and specialist subcontractors . |
| 11 | Health visitors employed by local authorities in the 1900s were advised to show courtesy to their clients in much the same manner as their late nineteenth-century counterparts . |
| 12 | Citalia is pleased to offer bedrooms in either the main hotel or in the four-star residence which is conveniently situated just 20 yards away . |
| 13 | We believe that by circulating it widely to politicians decision-makers in both the public and private sectors , journalists , other voluntary bodies and so on , we will be doing the best we can to raise awareness and interest in sustainability . |
| 14 | Sixteen laboratories from 14 countries in both the developing and developed world are taking part in the project . |
| 15 | It also helps us set priorities and stragegies in both the short and the long term . |
| 16 | Feeding on an abundant sedentary prey ( several years ' supply may be found within 1 m , ) , there is little stimulus for great activity and dog-whelks may spend long periods in much the same place . |
| 17 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 18 | Lévi-Strauss ' critique of Sartre effectively takes the form of a deconstructive analysis : he begins by arguing that the Critique works by a double movement — just as , only four years later , Derrida was to suggest that the anthropologist 's own work functions in exactly the same way . |
| 19 | A and B might well have features in common from the outset ( the c elements in the figure ) and these will produce primary generalization — training on A will give associative strength to stimulus elements that are present also in B. The X representation functions in just the same way as the c elements in producing generalization except for the fact that the ability of A and B to activate X is based on prior conditioning . |
| 20 | The cut and blown glass ornaments were still set on their mirrored shelves in exactly the same positions as when he had unwrapped them . |
| 21 | Doreen realised she was going about matters in entirely the wrong way . |
| 22 | This uses the shells of whelks , winkles and other gastropods in much the same way as a medieval knight used a suit of armour — to protect the soft and vulnerable parts of the body from attack . |
| 23 | They would never see their parents in quite the same way again , and ironically it was apt that they should not , because Timothy Gedge had not told lies entirely . |
| 24 | The evidence suggested rather that the USSR was a defensive and sometimes opportunist power , responding to changing circumstances in much the same way that any other government ( or its tsarist predecessor ) might have done . |
| 25 | … and how many flats have gone to blacks in just the last few years ? |
| 26 | This has long been recognised , and the courts have tended to construe indemnities in much the same way as exclusion clauses : thus an indemnity will be construed strictly contra proferentem ( Canada Steamship Lines v R [ 1952 ] AC 192 ; Smith v S Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 165 ) . |
| 27 | Your caravan is like a second home so you should protect it and its contents in exactly the same way you protect your house or flat . |
| 28 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 29 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 30 | Four hours later the number of counts in both the 5 8 Co and 7 5 Se photo peak windows were determined . |