Example sentences of "[pers pn] in the [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me .
2 Most mortgage lenders see you in the same light as everyone else and make no concessions to the lifestyle that lies ahead of you .
3 ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis !
4 It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year .
5 They put me in the same category as Martinho .
6 ‘ DO N'T MENTION me in the same paragraph as Ace ! ’
7 Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily .
8 This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists .
9 Professor Akio Sasaki and Assistant Professor Shigeo Fujita claim that their ‘ multifunctional optical element device ’ can amplify light signals , store them in the same way as a conventional computer stores electric signals , and channel the flow of rays in one direction by absorbing random reflected light .
10 For most of my time in the House , I have been dissatisfied with them in the same way as I was dissatisfied with private Bills .
11 Split them in the same manner as ordinary herbaceous perennials , but do not cut the foliage too far back .
12 That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor .
13 Edberg 's rise to No 2 , although a welcome gesture from Wimbledon in recognition of his two titles , could backfire , with the chance that today 's draw could place him in the same half as former champions Boris Becker and Michael Stich .
14 ‘ I would put him in the same bracket as Beryl Reid ’
15 I would put him in the same bracket as Beryl Reid . ’
16 The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair .
17 The child who is abused or belittled will often , when an adult , seek out others who will treat him in the same way as this fits in with his inner image of himself .
18 She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker .
19 The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight .
20 And then there was Matthew , always resentful , always looking to hurt ; and her father-in-law , leading the boy into bad ways , moulding him in the same pattern as himself .
21 At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson .
22 Did you know that Queen Victoria put him in the same class as Landseer ?
23 It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers .
24 She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn .
25 He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age .
26 Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back .
27 We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings .
28 The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow .
29 Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres .
30 Treat it in the same way as black spot , with particular attention to clearing up fallen leaves on to the fire .
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