Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 2 | Having said all that , I think the interest erm of history lies in exactly the same kind of area as interest in the future , in the sense that we are dealing erm as historians with time , and , to use the old cliché , time marches on , it certainly moves , and the future , the present and the past do form some kind of continuum . |
| 3 | For each photograph , they worked out a complicated formula to get their own cameras and tripods in exactly the same positions as the ones adopted by their predecessor a century earlier . |
| 4 | If you buy from a market stall that counts as b that counts in exactly the same way as buying from any other er high street retailer . |
| 5 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 6 | and yet more ironically Margery replies in precisely the same terms : ( " God reward you for your labour " ) |
| 7 | I I er I er our office now appears in exactly the same way as the other two , namely that you need to announce yourself and who you are before you get let in the door . |
| 8 | We can also define matrix series ; for example the parallel series unc exp A converges in exactly the same way as exp{ gl } . |
| 9 | ( This applies in just the same way if records are being randomized to multiple records buckets . |
| 10 | It applies in exactly the same way in the case of a breach of contract by the seller . |
| 11 | Ezekiel speaks in much the same strain , and specifically attributes this change to the Spirit of God : |
| 12 | The War Wagon moves in exactly the same way as a regular chariot pulled by two warhorses . |
| 13 | The reductionism at work in the other three statements moves in exactly the opposite direction . |
| 14 | Father Christmas , however , operates in much the same way , and when both celebrities were planning to meet up , in December 1987 , to deliver Christmas presents to sick children at Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital , there was no competition . |
| 15 | ‘ The cholera toxin operates in much the same way ’ , Wright says , ‘ however , there have been no reported fatalities ’ . |
| 16 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 17 | The patent operates in much the same way as a title deed to property , except that the ‘ property ’ can not be alienated . |
| 18 | Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings . |
| 19 | The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line . |
| 20 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 21 | The whole Western idea of mental health runs in precisely the opposite direction : what is desirable is congruity between your self-consciousness and your natural being . |
| 22 | Monotype works in broadly the same way as Linotype machines . |
| 23 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 24 | As a coupling , this is not too hot : almost 50 years separate these works which ideally require different styles of playing ; this highly-gifted duo unfortunately approach both works in exactly the same way . |
| 25 | Your eurocheque card works in exactly the same way as a Midland AutoCheque Card . |
| 26 | Rooms for Windows works in exactly the same manner . |
| 27 | The sting of a nettle works in just the same way as a hypodermic syringe . |
| 28 | Time buying on television works in much the same way , although bigger money is involved . |
| 29 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 30 | The thermal printer works in much the same way as an impact matrix printer in that instead of a column of needles in the printing head it has a column of heating elements . |