Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the same way " in BNC.

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1 A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area .
2 But the steroids in the Pill are of a different sort — they are the female sex hormones ( or closely related chemicals ) and they do not act in the same way as corticosteroids .
3 He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way .
4 The apparent ritualistic posing , although strongly performed and easy to understand , did not appeal in the same way as his Song of the Earth .
5 Starving people have frequently refused to eat food that is foreign to them , and horses will behave in the same way .
6 At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do .
7 It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed .
8 With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions .
9 Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do !
10 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
11 Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ?
12 Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule !
13 On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces .
14 We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former .
15 Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain .
16 Separate canteens for managers and workers can not be permitted and managers should really dress in the same way as workers , in standard-type overalls .
17 Creating multimedia applications will be so much more difficult than transferring data to CD-ROM , that the number of programs will not escalate in the same way .
18 We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News .
19 Tried and tested application programming interfaces , data structures , formats and protocols , will usually work in the same way even if they are encapsulated within other architectures .
20 It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care .
21 While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs .
22 The chemistry simply did not work in the same way .
23 If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction .
24 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 .
25 It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids .
26 Milk distribution would work in the same way in that as long as the milk is put into the system at one point , it does not matter where it is taken out . ’
27 These were the very rays which provided energy to synthesise amino acids and sugars in the primordial oceans , so the arrival of the blue-greens ruled out the possibility that life on earth could ever begin in the same way again .
28 For example , if there is no allowable string which spans the whole graph , then we can search in the same way as described above , but wherever the required path does not exist in the tree , check if that position in the tree is flagged for end-of-word .
29 Alternatively , some bicycles have an odometer on them which you could use in the same way .
30 Darkfall gives the inert material an ‘ animate ’ characteristic , it makes it react in the same way to a human absorption .
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