Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the same way [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area .
2 But the steroids in the Pill are of a different sort — they are the female sex hormones ( or closely related chemicals ) and they do not act in the same way as corticosteroids .
3 The apparent ritualistic posing , although strongly performed and easy to understand , did not appeal in the same way as his Song of the Earth .
4 At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do .
5 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
6 Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule !
7 On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces .
8 We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former .
9 It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed .
10 Separate canteens for managers and workers can not be permitted and managers should really dress in the same way as workers , in standard-type overalls .
11 It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care .
12 While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs .
13 If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction .
14 If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described .
15 It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids .
16 For example , if there is no allowable string which spans the whole graph , then we can search in the same way as described above , but wherever the required path does not exist in the tree , check if that position in the tree is flagged for end-of-word .
17 Will they vote in the same way if their right to have a say is taken away from them ?
18 The agency , said Heseltine , has become ‘ a pawn in the negotiations of the French ’ , although an alternative way forward had been proposed in which the agency would have a secretariat in Brussels and the leadership of the agency would rotate in the same way that the EC presidency does .
19 Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home .
20 Marks & Spencer and Waitrose both have champagnes which you could usefully treat in the same way if you have to cool dark hole to bung them in .
21 " Having seen so many such unions started in the past , they knew that the new union would disappear in the same way as the others " , and good humouredly laughed Wilson 's overtures out of court .
22 ‘ Compulsive spenders will binge in the same way as alcoholics ’
23 If there are obvious grounds for real suspicion , a senior detective will attend in the same way as in the case of any other suspicious death .
24 In many ways the Japanese do not respond in the same way as Westerners .
25 That is , the universe would develop in the same way as its mirror image if , in addition , every particle was swapped with its antiparticle !
26 With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ .
27 This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more .
28 Thus , because of the divergent history of the dialect , there can be subsets within larger classes ( such as ( Ε ) ) which do not vary in the same way as other items in the set .
29 If we actually , very quickly , which round the world was meant to be , erm , those of you which are familiar with other countries , what about women in , say America , Ashley , are , are they , do they participate in the same way as they do here ?
30 One can not prove in the same way that senior bureaucrats do not implement effective conservation because there is no extra financial inducement and it could involve them in embarrassing political contradictions .
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