Example sentences of "in the [adj] way [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motif edges do have to be bound with the main yarn in the usual way as work progresses . |
| 2 | Literature ( in the same way as kinship systems ) is organized at every level like language , and it is a central part of structuralist purpose to reveal the similarity . |
| 3 | Yes , of course , um er their heads fall off or something like y'know in much the same way as chil people frighten children with with with bogies and with unlikely punishments in the same way as compliance is often enforced on children . |
| 4 | Make this in the same way as sardine butter , using the same proportions of fish and butter . |
| 5 | The uPVC pipes can be joined in the same way as uPVC waste and soil pipes — that is by solvent-welding or by ring seal ( push-fit ) joints — but it 's better to use push-fit joints for flexibility . |
| 6 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 7 | Neither athletics nor soccer prospered from black participation in the same way as boxing , but there were exceptions . |
| 8 | On Iceland , one might , if one were lucky , also find small quantities of andesitic and rhyolitic rocks being erupted but they are scarce , since they can only be formed by skimming off silica-rich material from a large volume of basaltic magma , in the same way as cream is skimmed off the top of milk . |
| 9 | They can be used to mask more controversial issues in the same way as usage of the labels purpose or reasonableness . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Whether divorce operates in the same way as widowhood in this regard is really a matter of speculation at the present time . |
| 12 | It used to be acceptable in the same way as incest . |
| 13 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 14 | A number of laws , many of them based on principles of ‘ obscenity ’ , ‘ indecency ’ and ‘ offence ’ are designed to prevent the distribution or display of homosexuality in the same way as porn is constrained . |
| 15 | Rain entering the soil disturbs the equilibrium in the same way as water added to the top of the capillary tube or towel ; water drains through the unsaturated zone to the water table . |
| 16 | Among other things , that paper proposed that sewerage charges should be separated out from the new council tax in the same way as water charges are at present separately levied . |
| 17 | There was an hors-d'oeuvre of eggs and anchovies , there were hot grilled fresh sardines to follow , the vegetable course was côtes de blettes , the rib parts of those enormous leaves of the spinach family which we know as chard and which are much cultivated in the Rhône valley ; the leaves themselves are cooked in the same way as spinach , the fleshy stalks and ribs were , on this occasion , sautéd in olive oil and flavoured with garlic and were delicious . |
| 18 | Valence electrons , with binding energies below about 40 eV , may be photoionized with X-rays in the same way as core electrons . |
| 19 | Sheet music and mirror tiles are cut in the same way as sheet glass — that is , on a large , flat surface , with the mirror lying on a blanket or newspaper . |
| 20 | Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn . |
| 21 | It should be treated in the same way as pinch pleat tape . |
| 22 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 23 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 24 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 25 | Are completion accounts to be prepared in the same way as management accounts or as quasi-statutory accounts ? |
| 26 | Is not opencast coal a vital national resource in the same way as sand and gravel in my constituency are ? |
| 27 | The interrelation of morality and religion in his thought is such that he regards them as convertible terms in the same way as Truth and ahi sā are convertible terms . |
| 28 | They discover much of this talent in the same way as record companies . |
| 29 | If some know-all sourpusses are to be believed , The Rockingbirds are n't appreciated in the same way as Suede or Kingmaker or Therapy ? : they 're just an average bunch of Luddites being championed because of kitsch , ‘ so out it 's in ’ considerations . |
| 30 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |