Example sentences of "along the lines " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the state-run Peco garages , blue-jeaned secret policemen saunter along the lines of Dacias , checking who is playing truant from work . |
| 2 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 3 | Instead reply along the lines of , ‘ I do n't think I have any weaknesses which would affect my ability to do this job ’ . |
| 4 | But the chick may not remember these as three separate items ; instead , and more likely , it will adopt a different , and indeed more rational , strategy , and generalize along the lines that ‘ all objects of a certain size , irrespective of colour , are likely to taste bitter and should be avoided ’ ; that is , it would be remembering one item , not three . |
| 5 | This segmentation of spheres of action and influence along the lines of gender difference is reflected in the radio programming in the novel . |
| 6 | But the committee chairman , the Labour MP , Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ Either changes are made , I hope along the lines that we recommend , or I very much fear statutory regulation to which I am very , very much opposed . ’ |