Example sentences of "[det] way as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truly heroic character of Lemminkainen in the great Finnish epic Kalevala acts , according to the story , very much in the same way as the heroes of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the French Song of Roland and many other heroic poems . |
| 2 | He is a barbarian in the same way as the Polovtsian dancers in Prince Igor . |
| 3 | The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg . |
| 4 | The UK accounts for almost half group turnover , and the European operations , mainly France and Germany ‘ are not suffering in the same way as the UK , ’ Mr Stephens said . |
| 5 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 6 | This was to be demonstrated in the same way as the arbitrariness of capital relations of production by showing that in totally different systems the family was totally different . |
| 7 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
| 8 | The Territorial Army now constitutes a vital element of the British Army and has to be supported in the same way as the Regular Army . |
| 9 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 10 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 11 | Thus , in much the same way as the Bundesbank chairman , Dr Karl Otto Poehl , has been at pains to preserve the monetary integrity of the new Europe , so the Cartel Office is disturbed about abrogating to Brussels responsibility for all mergers involving a turnover of less than $5billion . |
| 12 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 13 | If the power is exercised , the proceeds are applicable in the same way as the proceeds of a sale ordered by the court , and the mortgagor will remain liable to pay any deficiency . |
| 14 | If the nurses accepted it , their pay would be determined in the same way as the doctors ' , by an independent review body . |
| 15 | Though it was relatively unsuccessful it confirmed and strengthened the trade union connection with the Labour Party in much the same way as the Taff Vale judgement had acted as an annealing force between the trade unions and the Labour Representation Committee in 1901 . |
| 16 | It also rejected the Crown 's argument that the issue of consent should be left to the jury — in the same way as the question of dishonesty is left to them in theft cases — but its actual decision comes fairly close to this position . |
| 17 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 18 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 19 | Just as important as the specific commitment is the general recognition that older people have potential in the same way as the rest of the population , and that this should be given the chance to develop . |
| 20 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 21 | This also helps to reinforce the idea that each group 's efforts is just as good/bad/funny/serious as the next one — it also will often provide a little light relief in the same way as the music and dancing . |
| 22 | Willy Brandt tried to present his policy as the natural continuation of Adenauer 's : he would reconcile Germany with the East in the same way as the old man had reconciled her with the West . |
| 23 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 24 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 25 | Left to itself , water in the unsaturated zone would reach an equilibrium in the same way as the water in the capillary tube or the towel . |
| 26 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 27 | A and B might well have features in common from the outset ( the c elements in the figure ) and these will produce primary generalization — training on A will give associative strength to stimulus elements that are present also in B. The X representation functions in just the same way as the c elements in producing generalization except for the fact that the ability of A and B to activate X is based on prior conditioning . |
| 28 | Much discussion revolves round whether English Heritage ( whose 400 castles and abbeys are largely unfurnished ) has the capacity to care for fragile interiors and furniture in the same way as the National Trust . |
| 29 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 30 | In 1957 there were still some 300,000 Bretons but the breed was heavily crossed with the similarly coloured but unrelated Friesian , in much the same way as the red-and-white Bretons had been crossed with Shorthorns and eventually replaced by the Meuse-Rhine-Yssel . |