Example sentences of "a similar way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acts in a similar way to the mini-pill and also stops ovulation . |
| 2 | The importance of Healey Mills yard ( West Yorkshire ) has declined in a similar way , with most of its shunting duties transferred to Tinsley ( Sheffield ) and Doncaster . |
| 3 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 4 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 5 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 6 | The obvious course of action — to dilute the imported spirit in a similar way with other spirits — was not an option , since importers were banned by law from doing so . |
| 7 | It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes . |
| 8 | In a similar way , exponents of anything fitting the nebulous description New Acoustic Roots ( and its variants ) should keep a keen eye on Folk Roots magazine ( monthly ) for potential sympathizers ; jazz practitioners should get the studious Wire ( monthly ) and those operating in the more popular black fields of soul , funk , rock or rap should follow the perennial Echoes ( weekly , formerly Black Echoes ) or Blues and Soul ( biweekly ) . |
| 9 | The band must remember that recording costs are treated in a similar way to advances . |
| 10 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 11 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 12 | GPs who volunteer to hold practice budgets will act in a similar way for those services for which they are responsible . |
| 13 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
| 14 | Parma is perhaps the most famous of all the dried hams and is air-dried in a similar way to many salami . |
| 15 | In a similar way the phenomena of political philosophy , ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ , are , we shall see , reduced to , or explained in terms of , their causes in our basic desire for the pleasurable enhancement of the blood 's vital motion . |
| 16 | In this second case , identity consists in matter being continuously arranged in a similar way so as to ‘ partake of the same life ’ . |
| 17 | It is in a similar way that the existence of God is revealed to us . |
| 18 | In a similar way , a Roman soldier writing from Palestine to his parents in about 4 BC might well have written : ‘ This is an out-of-the-way dump . |
| 19 | In a similar way the famous psychiatrist Carl Jung , when asked about his belief , said : ‘ I do n't believe — I know , I know . ’ |
| 20 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 21 | Also , in a similar way , many people , not necessarily just old people , prepare by sleeping with instructions by their bed as to what should happen to their effects if they should die during the night . |
| 22 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 23 | In a similar way dies were sometimes moved from one mint to another . |
| 24 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 25 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 26 | In a similar way one can , on a broader scale , compare ‘ normal ’ patterns against each other , whether chronologically or geographically . |
| 27 | In a similar way , in the second century BC , some cities of Asia Minor made coins ( e.g. , fig. 6 ) of a weight standard which was heavier than that in force in the kingdom of Asia ; it is no surprise that these coins all turn up in hoards outside Asia , mostly in northern Syria , where they were exported either as a political subsidy for the pretender Alexander Balas or as trade objects in exchange for goods , perhaps slaves . |
| 28 | Serratus also provides a novel sequence features database which can be queried in a similar way to the sequence data . |
| 29 | In the solid state , this bis(dithiadiazole) is packed in a similar way to a one dimensional metal — ie short contacts ( eg S … |
| 30 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |