Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] exactly the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | There are other probes that operate on exactly the same principle but are geometrically different : an important one is the hot-film anemometer ; the heated element consists of a thin metallic film on the surface of a wedge-shaped thermally and electrically insulating base . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
6 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |