Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early computers , as mentioned above , input/output ( or transput ) operations were treated in the same way as internal operations ( such as addition ) ; once the operation had been started , the control unit awaited its completion , before continuing with the extraction , decoding , and execution of the next instruction . |
| 2 | In other words , two homologous structures were formed in the same way in two closely-related groups , though their development diverged , in the course of evolution , to adapt the structure for two different lifestyles . |
| 3 | The diminutive but pleasant cliffs at nearby Brassington and Harborough were formed in the same way . |
| 4 | The two parts of the base were joined in the same way , the lower loops of the ropework being added at the same time . |
| 5 | Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously . |
| 6 | Of the 9,009 papers those on which a second preference was indicated were transferred in the same way as Paisley 's surplus . |
| 7 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 8 | A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements . |
| 9 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 10 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 11 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 12 | If the computer could be made to reply vocally and , perhaps , understand spoken commands ; even if the utterances were phrased in the same way as those given through keyboard and screen , the computer would be easier to use . |
| 13 | Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study . |
| 14 | There was my elder half-brother Trevor and my two older sisters Lisa and Lorraine and me , and there were also three cousins who were left in the same way . |
| 15 | But presumably men were comforted in the same way , so why are they , unlike women , unable to pass it on ? |
| 16 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 17 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
| 18 | The severity of oesophagitis in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus was classified in the same way as in other patients and depended on the endoscopic appearance of the oesophageal mucosa above the neosquamocolumnar junction . |
| 19 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 20 | Parent 's social class and occupation was coded in the same way as the information on birth certificates . |
| 21 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 22 | The plump girl , who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims . |
| 23 | The north face was Gothick , the south strictly Classical , and the interior was divided in the same way ; the whole effort was a considerable visual pun on the pretensions of many of his neighbours . |