Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 2 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
| 3 | I was hypnot-ized by the knowing way this eleven-year-old blurted out so unfeelingly a tragedy that had paralysed an entire family . |
| 4 | Of course , they also absorbed the rest of the sunlight as well , storing it in a special sac until it was excreted in the normal way . |
| 5 | However , the real triumph was the fact that the user interface was matched to the traditional ways of working — which made it both easy to learn and rapidly accepted ( though much criticised for its lack of typographic accuracy ) by the publishing industry . |
| 6 | At Cambridge Darwin was absorbed into the Anglican way of thinking about Nature and read Paley 's Natural Theology . |
| 7 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 8 | This was done in the following ways : ( a ) By extending the concept of legal right . |
| 9 | This was made in the following way . |
| 10 | The severity of oesophagitis in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus was classified in the same way as in other patients and depended on the endoscopic appearance of the oesophageal mucosa above the neosquamocolumnar junction . |
| 11 | Mozart was buried in the customary way in an unmarked mass grave , and its exact location has never been discovered . |
| 12 | If everyone in , say , librarianship , was agreed on the best way to organize library services there would be little need for research , for conferences or for journals and books on librarianship . |
| 13 | A referral was received concerning an elderly woman who knew that residential care would be necessary at a future point ; she was assessed in the normal way , and placed on the waiting list . |
| 14 | Half the forty women were ‘ working class ’ and half ‘ middle class ’ ; social class was assessed in the conventional way , on the basis of husband 's occupation . |
| 15 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 16 | Erm well the the first point probably to make is that this er the manual that er Mr refers to was only published in June of this year er and clearly in terms of the information that er has been put in the statement , that was based upon the previous way of assessing the impact . |
| 17 | He was driven round the wrong way in a car in heavy rain . |
| 18 | Parent 's social class and occupation was coded in the same way as the information on birth certificates . |
| 19 | At the start of this account , computer-aided freedom , caf , was proposed as the future way forward many tutors and learners would like to tread . |
| 20 | The unofficial side was represented by the friendly way he was being offered coffee in a thin china cup , and the official side by the nervous energy of the AC 's manner and the fact that he was unobtrusively taking notes . |
| 21 | One day , as he was pushing his tinker 's cart round Bedford , he came across three or four poor women , sitting at a door in the sun , and was struck by the confident way in which they spoke of their salvation . |
| 22 | The plump girl , who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims . |
| 23 | The north face was Gothick , the south strictly Classical , and the interior was divided in the same way ; the whole effort was a considerable visual pun on the pretensions of many of his neighbours . |