Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adv] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
2 | It was naturally tempting for a rather superstitious man to trust again to an intuitive judgment of his own made in much the same circumstances as in the previous year . |
3 | The rest of the week passed in much the same way as that first day . |
4 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
5 | Many years later Alison behaved in exactly the same way . |
6 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
7 | Those inside it behaved in precisely the same way . |
8 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
9 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
10 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
11 | The working-scale model included part of a farm with a stream running through and including three clamp silos from which effluent poured in exactly the same proportions as from clamps containing grass treated in different ways . |
12 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
13 | At Sunningdale the same collection of old people , arranged in much the same order , was watching television in the day room . |
14 | Incidentally , this cream cheese mixture , spread on little fingers of bread and cooked in just the same way , is extremely good for a cocktail party as a change from those eternal sausages . |
15 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
16 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
17 | Instead the trial proceeds on the basis of oral evidence given by witnesses who are called by the parties and examined in much the same fashion as in England . |
18 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
19 | Tolkien would have liked that , for it would make ‘ luck ’ a close modern equivalent of the Old English word usually translated ‘ fate ’ and derived in exactly the same way from the verb ( ge ) weorþan , ‘ to become , to happen ’ . |
20 | For many men it implied that women would be introduced to freedoms and pleasures previously enjoyed only by themselves , and conceived in exactly the same terms . |
21 | The earlier period of about 24 hours seems to have resulted from the observation that the elusive surface markings of Mercury lay in roughly the same positions on consecutive nights . |
22 | Here we proceeded in exactly the same way , dividing the activities between paired and whole group work . |
23 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
24 | then I felt a real twit , cos a man came up and I said I think something 's gone wrong with the auto bank machine , says I , it wo n't give me any money because it 's , it 's coming up there 's an error , so he said well I 'll try and see , he says , he put in exactly the same card as me , he had the Midland card , put it in , got his money |
25 | Even thirty years later , when she was quite old enough to know it was n't her fault , that a house did n't burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond , she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it . |
26 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
27 | They are still much the same in appearance as they were then , and farmed in much the same way , although tractors have now replaced teams of oxen . |
28 | The second set unfolded in much the same way , with the Herts player — who recently scored another major success when he beat the nationally-ranked Neil Dyson in a county friendly — rally from 4–5 down to hold his serve and make it all-square , before breaking Ainley 's service in the following set to go 6–5 ahead . |
29 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
30 | The European national club monopolists — like Siemens , Ericsson and ITT-Alcatel — stayed in much the same positions . |