Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interesting comment from the Arts representative was that ‘ it is financially impossible to train people in the same way they did 5 years ago ’ . |
| 2 | The Department needs to know about the incidents that staff experience as they do their work , in order to plan to make working conditions safer , and to train staff in the best ways of dealing with violence if they meet it . |
| 3 | Most flying schools are businesses and not charities and have to purchase finance in the normal way . |
| 4 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |
| 5 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 6 | You and I have got a job , as Christians , to help to point people to the right way , narrow and difficult though it may seem to be . |
| 7 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 8 | They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way . |
| 9 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 10 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 11 | We do not have to fear predators in the same way as do other animals , but because we are social beings and rely upon others for survival , learning and fulfilment in life , company is essential . |
| 12 | Racial discrimination was widespread , most Americans showing an unwillingness to treat Japanese in the same way as white immigrants . |
| 13 | In ‘ The Dissolution of Character in the Novel ’ she expresses her faith in the power of the computer as a concept to change literature in the same way that print did nearly five hundred years ago : |
| 14 | In work with neurotics , and patients unable to recover from the death of a loved one , Freud found it useful to conceptualize matters in the following way . |
| 15 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 16 | Mr Major said : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to congratulate Liverpool on the remarkable way in which it arranged and organised the celebrations concerning the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | Would waking subjects really respond to dream images in the same way as when asleep ? |
| 18 | To say prayers in the Catholic way of worship , and feed one 's soul on frequent sacraments , and practise a little fasting , and use the sacrament of confession , and study Marcion and the early Church and the Bible , and to have time for quietness and silence and meditation — that was what he looked for at this moment of his life . |
| 19 | ‘ And if possible try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy . |
| 20 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 21 | This provides you with the opportunity to make objections in the same way as with any other listed building and to put forward alternative solutions . |