Example sentences of "[adv] exactly the [adj] way " 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 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A model helicopter behaves in exactly the same way . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | When you have finished with the works clean them in exactly the same way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Filial imprinting is known to restrict preferences to the familiar ( see Bateson , 1979 ) , and sexual imprinting could operate in exactly the same way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The War Wagon moves in exactly the same way as a regular chariot pulled by two warhorses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Your eurocheque card works in exactly the same way as a Midland AutoCheque Card . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We can also define matrix series ; for example the parallel series unc exp A converges in exactly the same way as exp{ gl } . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If these plants are kept in a laboratory , they act in exactly the same way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
| 24 | Everything falling in exactly the same way is what is natural , not everything staying put the same way . |
| 25 | If they both say the world behaves in exactly the same way , you ca n't say one is right and the other wrong . |
| 26 | You would see the light beams curve in exactly the same way . |
| 27 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
| 28 | If you buy from a market stall that counts as b that counts in exactly the same way as buying from any other er high street retailer . |
| 29 | Whilst this is a fast and relatively painless process , the files will require handling in exactly the same way as if they had been transferred across a simple serial link . |
| 30 | Cardiff spun around in shock , seeing all of the others reacting in exactly the same way , as the hideous , agonised cacophony echoed and reverberated around them . |