Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 2 | It was naturally tempting for a rather superstitious man to trust again to an intuitive judgment of his own made in much the same circumstances as in the previous year . |
| 3 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
| 4 | The rest of the week passed in much the same way as that first day . |
| 5 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
| 6 | Many years later Alison behaved in exactly the same way . |
| 7 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 8 | Those inside it behaved in precisely the same way . |
| 9 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 10 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 11 | Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam . |
| 12 | Urban Development Corporations were introduced in 1981 in London Docklands and Merseyside , and the Urban Development Grant came in late the following year . |
| 13 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 14 | These things sometimes happened in even the best run hospitals , he said , and this one was not even particularly well run . |
| 15 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
| 16 | The working-scale model included part of a farm with a stream running through and including three clamp silos from which effluent poured in exactly the same proportions as from clamps containing grass treated in different ways . |
| 17 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 18 | At Sunningdale the same collection of old people , arranged in much the same order , was watching television in the day room . |
| 19 | Incidentally , this cream cheese mixture , spread on little fingers of bread and cooked in just the same way , is extremely good for a cocktail party as a change from those eternal sausages . |
| 20 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 21 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 22 | Instead the trial proceeds on the basis of oral evidence given by witnesses who are called by the parties and examined in much the same fashion as in England . |
| 23 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 24 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 25 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
| 26 | Tolkien would have liked that , for it would make ‘ luck ’ a close modern equivalent of the Old English word usually translated ‘ fate ’ and derived in exactly the same way from the verb ( ge ) weorþan , ‘ to become , to happen ’ . |
| 27 | For many men it implied that women would be introduced to freedoms and pleasures previously enjoyed only by themselves , and conceived in exactly the same terms . |
| 28 | The earlier period of about 24 hours seems to have resulted from the observation that the elusive surface markings of Mercury lay in roughly the same positions on consecutive nights . |
| 29 | Here we proceeded in exactly the same way , dividing the activities between paired and whole group work . |
| 30 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |