Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |
| 2 | The many thousands of bodies in the ruins all told much the same story , of practically instantaneous death when the searing hurricane from Mt Pelee reached them . |
| 3 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 4 | The outer boundary of the greenbelt is based on physical features , they 're not necessarily follow exactly the same features all the way round the Greater York Greater York area . |
| 5 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 6 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 7 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 8 | Government models of the economy have their counterpart in private sector models of the economy which , although not exactly the same , nevertheless exhibit much the same features . |
| 9 | However , a number of other authors ( for example , Alberro , 1981 ; Kormendi and Meguire , 1984 ) have employed something like the Lucas approach using data from more countries , and have generally found much the same result as that reported in Lucas . |
| 10 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 11 | If we divide orientation techniques into those which are media-assisted and those which are not ( eg guided tours ) we find that the former are infrequently used in the college libraries , while university and polytechnic libraries generally employ both the former and the latter . |
| 12 | If you are a person who usually eats roughly the same amounts each day , with regular meal times , a typical pattern will quickly reveal itself in the diary ; keep it for only seven days . |
| 13 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 14 | It is much more nearly true to say that no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms . |
| 15 | While field men still enjoy much the same degree of contact with their immediate superiors ( the area supervisors ) , senior staff are now distant and unseen . |
| 16 | No problem — you must understand that I 've aged a little , I mean I still look roughly the same . |
| 17 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 18 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 19 | It did n't seem that any more work had been done on it , but it still looked much the same . |
| 20 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 21 | It was just that nothing would ever seem quite the same again . |
| 22 | In the heat , a woman golfer could move from her normal 80 compression ball to a 90 , and an average male form his normal 90 to 100 , and still have much the same feel as usual , but with added distance . |
| 23 | For example , if you spell " existence " as the incorrect " existance " , you could try to understand why — in this case , because there are two suffixes , one " -ence " and another " -ance " , and you have chosen to add the wrong one to " exist " ( the two suffixes are confusingly pronounced basically the same ) . |
| 24 | All told , government policy across the board will clearly stay much the same . |
| 25 | And now those ruins tell me … how the life and the death of the peasants also remain forever the same , budding and withering regularly , like the grass and the flowers growing there in the graveyard . ’ |
| 26 | The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software . |
| 27 | West Sussex and east Hampshire have probably had exactly the same sequence of movements of sea level , but the signs of submergence are not so strongly marked . |
| 28 | No wonder Italians have just voted massively to adopt the British system for three-quarters of their Senate seats ; the Chamber of Deputies will probably go much the same way . |
| 29 | I 'm sure you and Father probably felt just the same , so you 'll understand , wo n't you ? ’ — blunt perhaps , but honest . |
| 30 | because I can remember , and it 's not that long ago for goodness sake , that if you qualified as a nurse , and will probably tell even the same story to an extent , there was no problem about a job , you were a certified nurse , bang . |