Example sentences of "in the [adj] way as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 2 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 3 | If we start the New Year in the same way as we finished it , I 'll be well pleased . |
| 4 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 5 | We are required in the same way as we require numeracy and literally literacy , literally ! |
| 6 | We should expect a student to tackle a problematic discourse in the same way as we would ourselves : that is to say top-down , starting with general ideas of the discourse and filling in details — like difficult word meaning — later . |
| 7 | A barn owl works out whether a sound is coming from the right or the left in the same way as we do . |
| 8 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |
| 9 | Er but er in my own opinion , I think that er employers were more or less forced , in the same way as we were , to recognize that they had a problem on their hands . |
| 10 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 11 | These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1 |
| 12 | We used to call it higher education , and erm so we had to deal with the , the Lowestoft Grammar School in the same way as we did with the other schools and also with the erm Technical Institute which was at Lowestoft , that was the only erm purpose-built erm centre for further education in the , in the county at that time . |
| 13 | Information is a resource to be managed , in the same way as we currently manage manpower , financial , and physical resources . |
| 14 | If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described . |
| 15 | Great chunks of it may require changes in Company policy and I assume that those are being investigated in the same way as we have been asked to comment . |
| 16 | ‘ I want people to come and see me playing Billy , not Adrian Boswell , in the same way as they went to watch Michael Crawford , not Frank Spencer . ’ |
| 17 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 18 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 19 | Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes . |
| 20 | In the end , leaders will be supported in the same way as they always have been : by winning people to Christ , who then begin to tithe their income in order to support and set free their leaders for full-time work in the church . |
| 21 | Remember that it 's perfectly natural for the other fish to eat the fry and that unless you take steps to prevent it , the fry will have to take their chances in the same way as they would in the wild . |
| 22 | The proposals would also allow SFA members to categorise registered persons dealing with overseas private clients who are unable to claim compensation under the scheme , in the same way as they categorise registered persons dealing with other clients ( eg business or professional ) not able to claim under the scheme . |
| 23 | Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does . |
| 24 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 25 | According to Wittgenstein , for instance , it is a condition of a colour-word , such as ‘ blue ’ , being used meaningfully by a person , that he should have learnt ( been trained ) to react to the things other people call ‘ blue ’ in the same way as they do . |
| 26 | According to market researchers International Data Corp , a survey of 500 major corporate users showed that although 39% will continue to use their mainframes in the same way as they always have , a massive 61% want to downsize . |
| 27 | According to market researchers International Data Corp , a survey of 500 major corporate users showed that although 39% will continue to use their mainframes in the same way as they always have , a massive 61% want to downsize . |
| 28 | The boys play the role of husbands and behave in the same way as they see their fathers do in their respective homesteads . |
| 29 | If we actually , very quickly , which round the world was meant to be , erm , those of you which are familiar with other countries , what about women in , say America , Ashley , are , are they , do they participate in the same way as they do here ? |
| 30 | The former were inclined to present their arguments within a mould of imaginary social history which assumed that , in his essence , man is a " unity even though human societies are different ; the latter were preoccupied with classification and were therefore predisposed to distinguish the varieties of mankind in the same way as they were accustomed to distinguish the varieties of animals , birds , plants and insects . |