Example sentences of "[noun] at exactly the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 2 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 3 | Every held operation using tractors or horses inevitably causes some compaction and damage to soil structure ; it should therefore be the farmer 's aim to create the desired effect with the minimum of passes at exactly the right time . |
| 4 | Electrical stimulation of the exposed cortex in a small group of patients has been reported to disrupt production of single oral-facial movements at exactly the same electrode sites that produce speech arrest during naming of objects . |
| 5 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 6 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 7 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 8 | However , with such a large clutch it is difficult for her to maintain all her eggs at exactly the same temperature . |
| 9 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 10 | Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech . |
| 11 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 12 | But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law . |
| 13 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 14 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 15 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 16 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 17 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |
| 18 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 19 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |