Example sentences of "of exactly the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 2 | The most important point , however , that emerged from Hartner 's investigation was that by 503 BC the Babylonian astronomer-priests had discovered that the tropical year ( the year of the seasons ) is not of exactly the same length as the sidereal year ( the ‘ true ’ astronomical year ) . |
| 3 | Some owners have observed that two helpings of exactly the same cat food , given at different times on the same day , are treated differently — the first being eaten , the second rejected . |
| 4 | It seems to be made of exactly the same grade of rosewood as the fingerboard and I think a tighter , less coarse grain would have been more attractive . |
| 5 | If capital markets are imperfect , they can cause shifts in supply , of exactly the sort described above , which magnify what may initially be relatively small shocks to economies . |
| 6 | ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ is then a statement of exactly the same class as ‘ The Road goes ever on and on ’ : literally true , literally unhelpful or even banal , but in its literal truth making a symbolic promise . |
| 7 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 8 | The Minoans , under the influence of exactly the same drug , may well have had visions of a fantastic , maze-like building , and based the design for the Labyrinth on their visions . |
| 9 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 10 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |
| 11 | Also , that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs , the basic china was of exactly the same high standard . |
| 12 | What do we believe if on a certain occasion we have taken it that there exist conditions of exactly the ten types , including a flipping , but the wipers do not start ? |
| 13 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 14 | Many of the initial questions were of exactly the type the previous week 's session had been intended to prevent . |
| 15 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 16 | I tore off the wrapping paper to reveal a framed version of exactly the same photograph we 'd sent to Joe 's dad . |
| 17 | In 1623 an elderly Roman organist , Paolo Quagliati ( C. 1555–1628 ) included in his Sfera armoniosa a duetto da camera for two sopranos and violino obligato in three sections distinguished by different characters , different metres , and ( obviously ) different tempi : EX. 87(ii) is a triple-time aria of exactly the same type as those by Berti and d'India just mentioned . |
| 18 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 20 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 21 | People who get in a car when it is stolen are associated with that act and can be convicted of exactly the same offence . |
| 22 | Likewise , the behaviour of galore should receive a historical explanation of exactly the same sort , being derived from the Gaelic gu leòr , an adverbial phrase that can be translated literally as to sufficiency . |
| 23 | In these the concentration can be changed in situ , whereas fresh solution concentrations of exactly the same volume must be introduced for each measurement in the non dilution Cannon-Fenske . |
| 24 | He can however close out the position by simply buying an option of exactly the same description as the one he had previously sold . |
| 25 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
| 26 | Moreover , the Leicester mosaics themselves can hardly be construed as the work of exactly the same group of craftsmen , because the St. Nicholas Street mosaic appears to include work of a standard below that of any in the Blackfriars mosaic ( see section 4.4 ) . |
| 27 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 28 | Thus the diphthongs could be made up like this ( our usual transcription is given in brackets ) : Long vowels : Diphthongs and long vowels are now of exactly the same phonological composition . |