Example sentences of "[prep] precisely the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 2 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 3 | Whether this is a plain green , or yellow , or an overall mottled grey and brown , the result is a body-covering of precisely the same hue and tone . |
| 4 | Lavier continues to reflect on paradoxes , with such examples as the superimposition of a safe on a refrigerator , both objects having been covered with paint of precisely the same colour as the original . |
| 5 | That no final accommodation between these diverse conceptions of the boundaries of English was achieved is clear from the re-emergence of precisely the same argument , but now within a much wider public domain , in 1981 . |
| 6 | If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) . |
| 7 | Like the squirrel , he should marry only someone of precisely the same blood lines as himself . |
| 8 | Is n't this an example of precisely the kind of person that Christ said ‘ Go out , find , and help bring into your bed ’ ? |
| 9 | Exact Nature ! which designs and makes both plants and animals so carefully — each animal with precisely the amount and type of intelligence it needs to survive — and then squanders them so carelessly . |
| 10 | These she had made up to her exact requirements , with precisely the right number of holes , by an exclusive shop in Knightsbridge . |
| 11 | It is ironic to think that the Opéra-Bastille has become popular at last with precisely the thing which it was conceived to counter : the superstar ! |
| 12 | Indeed , Prussian hegemony fitted into precisely the gap between the two since , where centralisation took place , it was invariably convergence with Prussia , yet the commitment to remain centralised allowed her to defend her interests when she wanted to . |
| 13 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
| 14 | Some prime numbers can usually be found that give a good transformation — in fact it is the high probability that any suitable prime chosen will do so , allied to the ease with which this technique can be used to fit any number of records into precisely the required storage space , that makes this such a convenient method . |
| 15 | ‘ In multicountry research , the extent to which questions are formulated in precisely the same terms needs to be considered . |
| 16 | Its acquisition of NCR is moving the company in precisely the opposite direction |
| 17 | Umpire Barker made no response to the appeal , whereupon Richards — who at slip was in precisely the wrong place to see what had happened — danced down the pitch waving his right hand frantically , giving every appearance that he was about to remonstrate forcefully with the umpire ; whereupon Mr Barker raised his finger and Bailey was on his way . |
| 18 | Agnes knew that gesture : her daughter Brigitte shook her head and lifted her brows in precisely the same way . |
| 19 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
| 20 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 21 | The geneticist should recognize genes ‘ for ’ house shape in precisely the same sense as there are genes for , say , leg shape . |
| 22 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 23 | It is not difficult to see that the … power and extent of the growth of the productive forces , have reached their highest point in precisely the United States . |
| 24 | More important , to claim that a film can ‘ inject ’ the gullible , mid-American viewer with homophobia is to interpret the relation between representation and action in precisely the same crude , causal way as a Jesse Helms or a Mary Whitehouse . |
| 25 | To claim that a film can ‘ inject ’ the gullible viewer with homophobia is to interpret … in precisely the same crude , causal way as Mary Whitehouse |
| 26 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 27 | Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches . |
| 28 | In French cookery clarified beef suet , pigs ' lard and goose fat are used in precisely the same way to seal pâtés and home-preserved pork and goose . |
| 29 | It can not be supposed , then , that the STV would work in the United Kingdom in precisely the same ways as it does in Ireland . |
| 30 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |