Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the same way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your personality sets boundaries on what you can and can not do in rather the same way that your physical build also sets constraints . |
| 2 | All substances contain various amounts of energy within their chemical structures in rather the same way that the ball in Figure 6.4 possesses a potential energy proportional to its height above some datum . |
| 3 | This makes the transitions less well defined and subject to jitter in rather the same way as a multivibrator will jitter if the initial approach to transistor turn-on is not rapid . |
| 4 | In other words , the new company would start life structured in rather the same way as BP , with a Government shareholding but without the Government taking any part in the business . |
| 5 | In rather the same way as in some Basic Needs Strategies , a checklist of desirable attributes of a good strategy can be compiled ( Blaikie , Cameron & Seddon 1979 ) . |
| 6 | They seem to act on the host 's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug . |
| 7 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 8 | The two schools became closely associated with the Whig and Tory Parties , in much the same way that the Labour and Conservative Parties champion non-nuclear and nuclear policies today . |
| 9 | A wide range of scientific methods can be usefully employed to unmask fakes and fraudulent restorations , in much the same way that forensic methods are used in criminal investigations . |
| 10 | Their graves were tended by surviving relatives in much the same way that they looked after the house of an absent friend . |
| 11 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 12 | The discovery of Italian bronze coins of the third century BC in the area of modern Yugoslavia may perhaps indicate the presence there of individual pilgrims , tourists , soldiers or traders from Italy , in much the same way that the presence of hundreds of thousands of Islamic silver coins in Viking hoards of the eighth to tenth centuries is a reflection of the eastward penetration of Viking traders , who exchanged objects such as furs , slaves and amber for silver coinage . |
| 13 | Most Muslims and Croats in Bosnia believe the Yugoslav army , whose officer corps is now almost completely Serbian , is helping Serbs to capture territory in the republic in much the same way that they backed Serbs in the Croatian civil war . |
| 14 | The computer was programmed by Jewish scholars to examine the text for differences of word usage in much the same way that Shakespeare 's plays or Paul 's letters have been examined to determine whether they were written by their putative authors . |
| 15 | The past decade has seen immense progress in elucidating the scientific basis for a proper discipline of programming : it is now possible to prove that a computer program meets its specification , in much the same way that mathematicians and engineers know how to prove the correctness of a proposed solution to the relevant differential equations . |
| 16 | There is no constitutional objection to a publicly owned enterprise being run by a central government department , in much the same way that the Prison Service is presently run by the Home Office . |
| 17 | The early choices will be painful , of course , but in much the same way that ‘ pins and needles ’ are painful when your leg has gone to sleep . |
| 18 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 19 | They are fixed in much the same way that ceramic tiles are stuck to internal walls , but using a special adhesive mortar suitable for outdoor use . |
| 20 | She gives you ‘ The Look ’ in much the same way that Lauren Bacall does , and you play the game — Michael Parkinson set the rules with Shirley MacLaine . |
| 21 | In much the same way that Kodak announced , in May of last year ( ahead of the actual launch ) , its plans for its revolutionary Photo CD project , ( a new technology which will revolutionise the way that pictures are viewed ) , so too Reebok , in March of this year , made a pre-emptive strike by announcing that it will be launching , ( initially at the Olympics in July ) , its latest technology , which will be introduced to tennis at the US Open , in September . |
| 22 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 23 | It is likely that the Minoan sacral horns acquired these and possibly additional symbolic meanings , becoming a layered symbol , in much the same way that the Cross of Christ has been transformed in religious art to take on all sorts of new overtones . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that the buckle-end of a belt could be a formidable weapon , but in fact the belts were often pricked out in fancy patterns or embellished with metal studs in much the same way that modern motor-bike boys adorn their jackets with stud designs . |
| 25 | We wished to share our story , in much the same way that one might tug a friend 's arm and call his or her attention to a striking landscape , or a spectacular sunset . |
| 26 | We can subtract fractions in much the same way that we add . |
| 27 | The evidence suggested rather that the USSR was a defensive and sometimes opportunist power , responding to changing circumstances in much the same way that any other government ( or its tsarist predecessor ) might have done . |
| 28 | The primary purpose of these new developments is to distance accounting standard setting from the accounting profession , in much the same way that the establishment of the Financial Accounting Standards Board did in the USA . |
| 29 | From behind two hands gripped his shoulders in much the same way that an old tree root coils relentlessly around a pebble . |
| 30 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |