Example sentences of "[adv prt] exactly [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her death was a great blow to him , and I imagine Ruggiero handled it in exactly the wrong way , telling him to snap out of it , stop snivelling , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | Thus closed stratification systems operate in exactly the opposite way to Davis and Moore 's theory . |
| 3 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 4 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 5 | The reductionism at work in the other three statements moves in exactly the opposite direction . |
| 6 | All the policies that the hon. Gentleman and his party advocate would move us in exactly the opposite direction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then the same bunch of faces pop up , standing in exactly the same positions , doing exactly the same things in front of different houses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The termites continued to build their hills with their crest pointing in exactly the same direction as before , but they did change the disposition of their elongated chambers within the nest . |
| 11 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 12 | In such cases while talking of a person as being an authority one refrains from talking of him as in authority over oneself , and avoids regarding his advice or instructions as binding , even when , given one 's goals , one ought to treat it in exactly the same way as one treats a binding authoritative directive . |
| 13 | So hospitals had been home and although my stay at the Winchester one was not to be long , I saw no reason why it should n't function in exactly the same way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A model helicopter behaves in exactly the same way . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Although I agree that ‘ it is always dangerous to assume that the causes of emotional disturbances lie more in the past than the present , ’ I also know that families , like individuals , in Western societies have histories , and that no two families , happy or unhappy , develop in exactly the same way . |
| 18 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 19 | When you have finished with the works clean them in exactly the same way . |
| 20 | As we have seen , however , sign codes , although they can be shown to exist and function as language codes ( see chapter 10 ) , do not behave in exactly the same way as speech codes . |
| 21 | Filial imprinting is known to restrict preferences to the familiar ( see Bateson , 1979 ) , and sexual imprinting could operate in exactly the same way . |
| 22 | There are difficulties in identifying areas common to the brains of people and other animals and , even when that can be done , it is unclear how far one can rely on the areas working in exactly the same way . |
| 23 | The War Wagon moves in exactly the same way as a regular chariot pulled by two warhorses . |
| 24 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 25 | Your eurocheque card works in exactly the same way as a Midland AutoCheque Card . |
| 26 | As we have seen , constituency seats and list seats were not equal in number , nor in 1961 was the allotment of seats to parties calculated in exactly the same way as it is now . |
| 27 | We can also define matrix series ; for example the parallel series unc exp A converges in exactly the same way as exp{ gl } . |
| 28 | He thinks of that great opening shot in Le Métro and he realizes that her lips are moving in exactly the same way , her face pained as he does his practised best . |
| 29 | If these plants are kept in a laboratory , they act in exactly the same way . |
| 30 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |