Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [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 ? |