Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
2 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
3 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
4 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
5 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
6 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
7 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
8 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
9 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
10 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
11 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
12 | Restating it , so , the max value of that product is N minus one Now , if you wan na know what the maximum value and negat if the score 's are negatively correlated rather than positive , you end up with exactly the same expression , N minus one , but lo and behold it 's negative . |
13 | a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else . |
14 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
15 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
16 | The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline . |
17 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
18 | Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl . |
19 | ‘ You get several colleagues and the latest British Telecom touch dial screen technology with all the market-makers ’ numbers pre-programmed and you ring 'em up at exactly the same time . |
20 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
21 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
22 | The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts . |
23 | That women writers all suffered the same disadvantages , entertained approximately the same ambitions , and approached their writing out of basically the same experiences is manifestly untrue . |
24 | The UA2 team has found four similar ‘ events ’ out of roughly the same total number of collisions . |
25 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
26 | He dragged a bag out , turned it round and pushed it back in exactly the same position . |
27 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
28 | ‘ My great fear , ’ he told the Society of Conservative Accountants last month , ‘ is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
29 | My fear is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
30 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |