Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] precisely the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 2 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 3 | The stream of expected earnings is discounted in precisely the same way as the stream of expected dividends using the same discount rate ( because the discount rate applies to the risk class of the activities of the entire firm ) . |
| 4 | In French cookery clarified beef suet , pigs ' lard and goose fat are used in precisely the same way to seal pâtés and home-preserved pork and goose . |
| 5 | Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual . |
| 6 | Felling at precisely the right time , possibly a tall order for the commission , the UK 's largest timber producer with 900,000 hectares of forest valued at £2.8 billion , could add 15 per cent to timber value , according to the audit office . |
| 7 | The only snag is the ‘ Fair Credit Reporting Act ’ , insisting that any rejection at this stage is based on precisely the same criteria on which the original offer was made . |
| 8 | a standard format ensures that each site responds to precisely the same questions ; |
| 9 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
| 10 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 11 | ‘ In multicountry research , the extent to which questions are formulated in precisely the same terms needs to be considered . |
| 12 | It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way . |
| 13 | The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts . |
| 14 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 15 | Suspects and witnesses have special characteristics that will not be found in precisely the same mix in other randomly chosen members of the population and can not , therefore , be precisely re-enacted with others . |
| 16 | The air quality which results from this strategy depends upon ensuring that the charges are set at precisely the right level for all pollutants . |
| 17 | ‘ By an astonishing coincidence in the examiners ’ model solution precisely the same piece of goobledegook appears at precisely the same point . ’ |
| 18 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 19 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 20 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 21 | But , as the focal length of the projector increases , making the screen image smaller , the focal length of the camera lens is increasing at precisely the same rate ( zoom lenses commonly run from about 25mm to over 200mm in focal length ) . |
| 22 | Charges have also been advocated for precisely the opposite reason . |
| 23 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
| 24 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 25 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 26 | Both boats are aimed at precisely the same market . |